San Carlos Unified School District students have a lot to be proud of in 2024. Not only are students carrying on the traditions of their Tribe, but they are also looking into the future to imagine the lives they might live. From school pageants to the Gila County Fair, to …
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Punchers play a decisive role in HDMS Division Championship
For the second consecutive year, the High Desert Middle School football team won their division championship, undefeated. Miami Jr. High was runner-up. The foundation for this regional success, according to many in the game, is the CCYS Punchers Tackle Football and Cheer program. The organization involves youth from Globe, Miami, …
Read More »From Rez to Retail: The Rise of Apache Skateboards and the A-Team
Just past the turn of the millennium, Douglas Miles took his teenage son to buy a skateboard at a mall. “He was skating a lot and starting to crack them,” he recalls. Douglas didn’t have the money to buy his son one of the designer brand boards on the wall. …
Read More »Cultural Success Program gives San Carlos students a chance to say ‘SHIŁ GOZHÓÓ’
The San Carlos Unified School District’s Cultural Success Coaching Program offers a safe space and gives troubled students an outlet for their frustrations as well as material support during the school year. SCUSD support services created the program, in its second year of existence, to help students who may need …
Read More »Getting it done
We’ve all experienced someone telling us we ought to do something we’re already in the middle of doing, or that we ought to do it a certain way when we already know perfectly well how to get it done. Might be the new person at work who already knows everything, …
Read More »41st Apache Jii coming to Globe October 19
This October, the Chamber will host the 41st Annual Apache Jii in downtown Globe, celebrating the San Carlos Apache culture and contributions to the region and representing a broad array of Native American artisans and performers who come from all over a tri-state area. While the event has been associated …
Read More »SCUSD teachers have long history of service in the San Carlos community
The San Carlos Unified School District has worked to recruit teachers with deep connections to the San Carlos Apache Reservation and who represent the community they serve. From classes created to preserve Apache language and culture to general education classes, many instructors are products of the SCUSD system or have …
Read More »Cathy’s Little Free Libraries: A Love Where You Live Initiative
The Cathy Sanchez-Cañez Memorial Foundation’s five Little Free Libraries have brought over 10,000 books to the children in the Globe-Miami region in honor of Cathy’s life. As the fifth anniversary of her passing in a flash flood approaches, her mother was asked how Cathy’s family and friends turned such a …
Read More »New Ownership at La Luz del Dia Cafe
La Luz del Dia café served breakfast and lunch in Globe-Miami by the same family for more than half a century. The large coffee cup above the sidewalk at 304 N. Broad Street is a downtown landmark. Last year, the business went up for sale. “Once I got the picture …
Read More »Apache Tribe Requests United Nations Protect Oak Flat
Press Release by San Carlos Apache Tribe. May 2 San Carlos Apache Reservation, Ariz. —The San Carlos Apache Tribe has petitioned the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) to call upon the United States government to withhold the transfer of sacred Oak Flat for the proposed Resolution …
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