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The Day the Rez Stood Still, Part 4: A Frightfully Fun (and Free) Festival
September 25, 2026

The Day the Rez Stood Still, Part 4: A Frightfully Fun (and Free) Festival

Learn more about the Woodenhead Collective’s upcoming horror festival, The Day the Rez Stood Still: The Fourth Kind, happening in September at the Salt River Community Building. 3 Takeaways: They’re back! Raeann Brown, Seneca Silverhorn, Dominic Martinez, Dwayne Manuel and Dushane Manuel, known throughout the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community...

National Tribal Health Conference Makes a Stop in Salt River
September 16, 2026

National Tribal Health Conference Makes a Stop in Salt River

3 takeaways: Public health officials from across the country traveled to the Phoenix Valley for the National Tribal Health Conference, held from Aug 16-21 in the Gila River Indian Community. The conference featured a stop in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community with SRPMIC public health officials and staff from...

Fire Department Marks Topping-Out Ceremony
September 14, 2026

Fire Department Marks Topping-Out Ceremony

The Salt River Fire Department celebrated a huge milestone in the construction of Fire Station 295. The new station is located at 92nd Street and McKellips Road and is set to open next summer. On Friday, Aug. 7, a topping-out ceremony was held to signify the placement of the highest...

Back-to-School Haircuts Offered to Students
September 13, 2026

Back-to-School Haircuts Offered to Students

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Jesse Thomas works as a licensed barber in Queen Creek. The idea of pursuing that career came to him from his own barber when Thomas was fresh out of high school in 2022. The process began with a talk with his mother about the...

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work for Youth Basketball
September 12, 2026

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work for Youth Basketball

Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community youth gathered for one last hurrah before the school season began. On the weekend of Aug. 7, students headed to the Ske:g Himdag Ki: gymnasium for the Back to the School Yard Youth Basketball Tournament, hosted by Community Recreational Services Athletics. The tournament featured 16...

Gilbert Road Pipeline Across Salt River Now Operational
September 10, 2026

Gilbert Road Pipeline Across Salt River Now Operational

A pipeline built about two years ago is now transporting water across the Salt River under the Gilbert Road Bridge. Suspended underneath the Gilbert Road Bridge is the newly completed Gilbert Road Pipeline, which is operated by Salt River Project, the largest water provider in the greater Phoenix metro area....

Community Makes a Historic Hire
September 6, 2026

Community Makes a Historic Hire

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community continues to set the standard, not only in Indian Country, but also in the United States. On Aug. 1, Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort and Casino announced Patricia Tate as their newest CEO. Tate’s selection serves as two historic benchmarks: She is the...

Boarding School Healing Coalition Completes Oral History Project
September 4, 2026

Boarding School Healing Coalition Completes Oral History Project

After two years traveling throughout Indian Country, including Arizona, the coalition completed its 22nd and final stop in Oklahoma. 3 Takeaways: – The Oral History Project could be made public as soon as next year.– The coalition traveled to the Gila River Indian Community in December as part of an...

What’s on November’s General Election Ballot in Arizona?
August 31, 2026

What’s on November’s General Election Ballot in Arizona?

Election Day on Nov. 3 is right around the corner. With the July 21 Arizona primary election in the rearview mirror, O’odham Action News is here to help you learn more about who and what will be on your general election ballot. “Stand Up. Stand Tall. Vote.”is the slogan of...

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Kennise McGertt Continues Flag Tossing with ASU Marching Band 

Kennise McGertt Continues Flag Tossing with ASU Marching Band 

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Kennise McGertt has had quite an adventure since graduating from Mountain View High School in May. McGertt traveled to more than 20 states while on tour with the Academy Drum and Bugle Corps over the summer. When she returned in mid-August, she began her first year of college, attending […]
SRPMIC Member Becomes IFBB Bikini Professional Bodybuilder

SRPMIC Member Becomes IFBB Bikini Professional Bodybuilder

Leanne “Aimee” Velasquez, a 27-year-old Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member, was working as a registered nurse when she decided to change up her routine of going to the gym in February 2020. Feeling intimidated and lost, she hired a fitness coach to help her get a new routine down. Her coach turned out to […]
Mesquite Usage by the O’odham and Piipaash

Mesquite Usage by the O’odham and Piipaash

While walking here in the Valley, we often see mesquite trees with their seed pods dried up on the ground and don’t give them very much thought. However, those mesquite pods are a vital food source that has sustained the O’odham and Piipaash for hundreds of years. Along with many other indigenous foods, the mesquite […]
Harvesting the Fruit of the Prickly Pear

Harvesting the Fruit of the Prickly Pear

The O’odham and Piipaash people traditionally collected many indigenous plants in the Sonoran Desert. Many people continue to go out today and collect them when they are in bloom. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus, I:ibhai in O’odham, is one of the best traditional foods to collect from the summer through the beginning of […]
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