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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 […]
On January 25, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Tribal Council voted to open a 30-day public comment period on proposed ordinances regarding drug and drug-related crimes, including provisions for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in the Community. At the time, Council wanted to have something tangible that the Community membership could look at […]
On Saturday, March 18, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Cultural Resources Department held the 2023 Tortilla Festival at the Huhugam Ki: Museum. (The word “tortilla” is cemait in O’odham and modiily in Piipaash.) The first tortilla festival in the Community was held in 2019, but the event then was put on hold for the […]
On March 18 at the Scottsdale Civic Center Memorial Lawn, a new permanent memorial wall called the Scottsdale Memorial for the Fallen was unveiled to remember Scottsdale-area residents, including Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation veterans, who gave their lives in military service to the nation. The memorial is a project […]
On March 7, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed an executive order to establish an Arizona Task Force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). “It is time to turn the recommendations of the bipartisan study committee on MMIP into action,” Hobbs said. “By establishing this task force on MMIP, we are taking the first of […]
On the morning of March 18, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council members participated in the Gila River Indian Community’s 59th Annual Mul-Chu-Tha Fair & Rodeo Parade on Blue Bird Road. SRPMIC President Martin Harvier and Council members Jacob Butler, Michael Dallas and David Antone all rode horses in the parade, and Council members Cheryl […]
Students on spring break had the opportunity to explore their artistic skills on a mural project sponsored by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Youth Services Division (YSD). Over the course of two days, students in the Teen Wolf group of the after-school program worked together to design and paint a mural on an exterior […]
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