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Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Senior Services Director Melvin Deer recently got the chance of a lifetime to study in Japan. He attended a field seminar in the international business graduate curriculum of the Executive Master of Global Management (EMGM) degree program at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. In early […]
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community looks back at the history of our Community, we want to share the June 14, 1979 Special Centennial Issue of the SRPMIC Newspaper. Check out the full issue on the OAN archive page. http://oan.srpmic-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1979-Centennial-Edition-SRPMIC-Newspaper-BW.pdf
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 […]
On March 21, the Apache Stronghold group made their case “en banc” in front of a full panel of 11 judges at the Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, to save Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel in Apache) from becoming a two-mile-wide, 1,100-foot-deep crater due to the copper-mining interests of foreign-owned mining […]
Students in the Salt River Elementary School Eagles Club recently visited the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Garden to learn from Garden Coordinator Stetson Mendoza about how to plant squash and cook traditional foods. Fifth- and sixth-graders took home seeds, mulch and soil to plant the squash, and they even tried a fresh salad and […]
With a proclamation on March 21, U.S. President Joe Biden established the Avi Kwa Ame (spelled “Vii Kwame” in Piipaash) National Monument, located in Clark County, Nevada, near Laughlin. The site is culturally significant to the Piipaash and is central to Yuman culture. The monument is considered reserved federal land, and it includes Spirit Mountain […]
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 […]
Scottsdale Community College has been presenting a series of workshops on Indigenous perspectives in academics. The SCC Indigenous Cultural Center (ICC) is hosting a three-session workshop called Implementing Indigeneity, with the first two sessions already taking place on February 24 and March 10, and the third scheduled for April 7. The workshop highlights the cultural, […]
On February 23, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members came out to Community Building to learn about calendar sticks. The SRPMIC Cultural Resources Department invited scholars Harry J. Winters Jr. and J. Andrew Darling to give a presentation on traditional Akimel O’odham and Tohono O’odham calendar sticks and how these artifacts record the history of […]
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