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“Telling the Stories of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community”

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The Importance of Seed Saving at the Sharing Our Way Gathering 2026 (Video)
October 1, 2026

The Importance of Seed Saving at the Sharing Our Way Gathering 2026 (Video)

Native Seeds/SEARCH, a seed bank and conservation nonprofit, was welcomed to the Community on Aug. 28 in a continued partnership with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Cultural Resources Department. Participant support for the event was provided by the Arizona State University Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems. The agenda...

One Teacher, One Community and One Thousand Dollars
September 30, 2026

One Teacher, One Community and One Thousand Dollars

3 Takeaways: A surge of excitement whisked through the campus walls of Salt River Schools during the afternoon school day on Sept 15. It was time for technology teacher Keri Tuchawena to be celebrated for all the hard work she does for her students. Tuchawena was nominated by her colleagues...

Healthy Chair on Display at Huhugam Ki: Museum
September 28, 2026

Healthy Chair on Display at Huhugam Ki: Museum

If you talk to enough Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members of a certain age about “the Healthy Chair,” they will know exactly what you are referring to. You are bound to evoke a reaction similar to “I remember that chair!” You could be learning about the chair for the...

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...

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...

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...

OAN Podcast Episode 64 - Andreea Miguel and Zoe Hernandez
August 28, 2026

OAN Podcast Episode 64 – Andreea Miguel and Zoe Hernandez

In this episode, O’odham Action News Managing Editor, Dalton Walker, sits down with OAN Student News Reporters Andreea Miguel and Zoe Hernandez to discuss their awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association. They discuss what the awards meant to them and how reporting brought them closer to the Community. Click here...

Melchor Solis Facilitates Webinar on Personal Improvement, Reflection
August 9, 2026

Melchor Solis Facilitates Webinar on Personal Improvement, Reflection

3 Takeaways: When was the last time you wrote a love letter to yourself? It might be time to try it out. On June 23, the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona hosted a webinar titled “Protecting Our Relatives: A Reflection of Ourselves.” Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Melchor Solis facilitated...

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Traditional O’odham Plants: Desert Ephedra

Traditional O’odham Plants: Desert Ephedra

As more O’odham and Piipaash members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are going back to their roots and getting to know more about the traditional uses of the plants on the land, O’odham Action News spoke with community garden technician Amson Collins to help educate the Community about these plants. In January 2022 […]
Winners Crowned at 2023-24 Jr. Miss Salt River and Miss Salt River Pageant

Winners Crowned at 2023-24 Jr. Miss Salt River and Miss Salt River Pageant

On June 17, the 31st Annual Jr. Miss Salt River Pageant and 35th Annual Miss Salt River Pageant, presented by the Miss Salt River Committee, took place at the Salt River Pi-Copa Gym in front of an audience filled with Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members, families and royalty from around Indian Country. The annual […]
Learning the O’odham Women’s Game of Toka with Jessica Ruiz

Learning the O’odham Women’s Game of Toka with Jessica Ruiz

By Nalani Lopez In recent decades, the traditional game of toka has found its way back to the O’odham women of the Sonoran Desert. In the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Community member Jessica Ruiz, shared the ins and outs of the recreational sport with interested women on January 31 at the Salt River Tribal Library. The […]
Pueblo Grande Museum Renamed S’edav Va’aki Museum

Pueblo Grande Museum Renamed S’edav Va’aki Museum

For over 90 years, the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park has been in continuous operation in Phoenix. The name of the museum, however, has now changed to better reflect the site’s cultural history and association with the ancestors of the O’odham, the Huhugam. After many consultation meetings with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community […]
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