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3 Takeaways: During National Breastfeeding Month in August, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community WIC program made sure to champion mothers and their important role in the Community. On August 21, WIC held a “celebration of breastfeeding support” at the River People Health Center lobby with the theme “Honoring Moms...
3 Takeaways: For the penultimate installment of the inaugural Summer Speaker Series, host and Assistant Community Manager Lena Jackson-Eckert invited Katie Gertz to share how she got started tracing her family history and learning about genealogy. Gertz is president of the Family History Society of Arizona and leads the genealogy...
Learn the history of the commemorative day and how Indigenous communities honor the lives lost due to atrocities caused by boarding school systems on Turtle Island Every September 30, it’s important to wear orange to acknowledge the atrocities caused by the federal governments of the United States and Canada from...
Do you remember when actor Charlie Sheen visited with the Community children in Lehi in the late 1980s/early 1990s? The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community digital archiving team does. They even have a photograph to prove it. The SRPMIC digital archiving project was the focal point for a presentation held...
Don “Wild Eagle” Wuebber is an enrolled Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member who grew up on the East Coast in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. He was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix and was adopted at 3 months old. Now, at 57, he lives in Pennsylvania...
“It’s common knowledge that we were the first Arizona National Guard.” Military veteran Pacer Reina of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community shared those words in O’odham Action News’ coverage of the removal of tribal flags from the Phoenix Veterans Affairs building earlier this year. The story behind that National Guard fact...
Before getting into the swimming pool for his race, Maizen Brown, 8, hears his coaches tell him, “You got it, you can do this, Maizen. You’re strong!” He is. Those words gave him the motivation to go on and place in the 25-meter breaststroke race on July 26 at the...
Elaina Osife is officially a Thunderbird. The Thunderbird School of Global Management is a business school at Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. The school gets its name from a decommissioned World War II–era Army Air Force base in Glendale, Arizona, which was called Thunderbird Field No. 1. The school’s...
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community President Martin Harvier was a guest speaker in Phoenix recently for a special event that honored the legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers. Navajo Code Talker Thomas Begay was in attendance for the Navajo Code Talkers Day event, held on August 14 outside the Arizona...
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