On January 27, Salt River Schools and the Education Native Language Culture (ENLC) team brought a virtual Winter Storytelling Night to families at home via Facebook and YouTube. The 25-minute-long collection of Piipaash and O’odham animal stories for children featured a creative stuffed-animal play, oral storytelling, vocabulary words and a picture-book reading. Piipaash stories can […]

Native Ground Coffee, owned by Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Winter Wood, is a business that specializes in roasting quality coffee and tea for Indigenous communities, especially the SRPMIC. With a new logo and a goal to give back to Native communities, Native Ground Coffee provides wholesale coffee to tribal enterprises and partners, as […]

Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Scottsdale’s “Chivalry in Action” continued on February 4, when Queen Isabella and the Red Knight delivered food donations from their “Fill the Pantry Food Drive” to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Food Bank. Dressed in full medieval wardrobe, the queen and knight unloaded about 100 pounds of food items […]

The City of Tempe adopted a land acknowledgement on January 14, which officially begins the process of recognizing Tempe’s 40 square miles being culturally affiliated with the O’odham and Piipaash people and their ancestors. Cultural Preservation Program Manager Shane Anton of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Cultural Resources Department and the Gila River Indian […]

In our household we have a new teenage driver. When she leaves the house, a flood of uncertainties goes through my head: Did we teach her enough about driving? Is she paying attention to everything around her? She better not be texting! I’m sure these thoughts go through the minds of a lot of parents […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community wild horses are a sacred and protected part of the Himdag (way of life), and each horse within the Community is unique, with its own features and personality. One of the strongest attributes these horses share is their ability to adapt to different environments.  In fall 2020, a SRPMIC […]

Brothers Kenneth and Joseph Young had been playing around with the idea of having their own food truck, and before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, they were on track to making their dream come true. They had picked out their truck and designed a layout to accommodate their needs in the kitchen. But just before they […]

For Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on December 7, youth in grades K-12 used their imagination to draw, color or paint an image in remembrance of Pearl Harbor or the USS Arizona. Each winner received a $50 gift card to a Talking Stick Entertainment District partner property. Because this was the inaugural contest, it was decided […]