
Salt River Schools Sixth Grade Promotion
Salt River Elementary School held its 2025 sixth grade promotion on Wednesday, May 21, at the Accelerated Learning Academy. Click here to see O’odham Action News’ graduation insert PDF.
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“Telling the Stories of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community”
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Juan Ysaguirre is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Previously, he worked as a photojournalist for the Ak-Chin O'odham Runner Newspaper in Ak-Chin, Arizona.
(480) 362-7323 - Juan.Ysaguirre@SRPMIC-nsn.gov
Salt River Elementary School held its 2025 sixth grade promotion on Wednesday, May 21, at the Accelerated Learning Academy. Click here to see O’odham Action News’ graduation insert PDF.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is a non-profit organization that raises awareness and implements healing procedures to combat the atrocities committed by the U.S. Indian boarding school system ran by the federal government and local churches. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, known as the first U.S....
Editor’s Note: This story contains sensitive subject matter that readers may find upsetting. During the month of April, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community hosted several events to help continue to raise awareness and showcase support for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Here, in the Community, the Health and Human Services...
Several generations of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community families met inside of SRPMIC’s Council Chambers on April 16 to celebrate and honor Community seniors celebrating over 90-plus years of life. Prior to the recognition, President Martin Harvier provided insight as to how the celebration came to be. “A few weeks...
During the week of March 20 at Westworld of Scottsdale, the diet sodas were $4, but the art was priceless. The inaugural Scottsdale Ferrari Art Show featured a who’s who of local artists from the Valley of the Sun, which also included Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community artist Dwayne Manuel,...
Digital photography students from Salt River Schools made a special April visit to Community Relations at the Two Waters Government Complex. The elementary school students take part in a digital photography class as part of the Eagles Club after-school program. Students toured Community Relations and met with staff, including O’odham Action...
During a recent April 1 webinar in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Memory Dawn Long Chase, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and domestic violence response director for National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, explained it best. “If you are dealing with any human being in a...
During a speech delivered to Congress on July 8, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon said it best, “Let Indian tribes govern themselves.” He added, “We must assure the Indian that he can assume control of his own life without being separated involuntarily from the tribal group.” Nixon’s speech proved to...
“We are in control of our own attitude,” began Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Health and Human Services Prevention and Intervention Health Educator Melanie Nosie, LMSW. On March 25, Nosie facilitated a webinar regarding a topic we all can work on, self-empowerment. Recently, the Community Health webinars have seen an...