Discover Salt River, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s tourism department, has set up a geocache tour around the Talking Stick Entertainment District. Geocaching is a worldwide game using GPS to create a treasure hunt. Geocaches are hidden in containers which can be found using GPS coordinates with your phone or other devices. Seven caches are […]

From November 5 to 23, the Salt River Public Safety Communications Division (PSCD) collected about 560 cans of food for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Food Pantry. This was the first canned food drive effort by PSCD staff. “The canned food drive was an internal effort for PSCD staff hosted through our internal Cheer […]

It’s a classic Christmas tradition to leave out some milk and cookies for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. The tradition started more than 80 years ago to help teach children during the Great Depression the importance of showing gratitude for the gifts that they received during a time of economic hardship.  According to www.nationaltoday.com, a […]

Are you looking for something to do to help get into the holiday spirit this season? Because of COVID-19, many of the usual holiday activities, such as the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Christmas Program and Light Parade and other holiday events around the Valley, have been cancelled.  But all is not lost—you can still […]

In a Zoom presentation on Monday, November 30, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Garden Coordinator Jacob Butler shared his knowledge of the devil’s claw plant with Arizona Native Americans through Native Health Phoenix’s free virtual Devil’s Claw Workshop. Native Health Phoenix offers a number of virtual workshops featuring members of different tribes sharing their traditional […]

On December 7, 1941, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, was attacked by 353 imperial Japanese aircraft. The attack destroyed 188 American aircraft and eight U.S. Navy battleships. Four of the battleships sank in the harbor: the California, the West Virginia, the Oklahoma and the Arizona. The toll was 2,403 […]

In the President’s Weekly Update on Friday, November 20, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community President Martin Harvier visited the Salt River Food Distribution Center and asked Food Program Coordinator Daniel Chiago a few questions about the processes there and how the food boxes are prepared and distributed to Community members.  Harvier and Chiago conducted a […]

For the 2020 U.S. General Election, Salt River Schools students were able to make grown-up decisions by participating in a mock election through the nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots-driven voter education program called Kids Voting Arizona. A total of 69 votes were cast for President and Vice President tickets, with 66.67% of the votes, 46 total, going […]