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Fire departments from across the Valley gathered members from their technical rescue teams (TRT) at the Verde River on the morning of Tuesday, July 16, for an annual refresher training on swift water rescue operations. Salt River Fire Department (SRFD) Station 293’s A-Shift crew members Captain Riley Murph, engineer Anthony...
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community was represented well at the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s (CRYP) 10th Annual RedCan Invitational Graffiti Jam in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, or Cheyenne River Lakota Nation, July 10–11. Founded in 1988, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is a...
Congresswoman Sharice Davids (D-KS), an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, was welcomed to the Community by SRPMIC leadership and the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs (OCLA) on July 19 with a tour of the Justice Center and the Salt River Police Department Dispatch Center. The SRPMIC’s...
A ceremonial wall-signing and “topping-out” celebration took place on July 26 at the construction site for the new Journey to Recovery (JTR) Center, located west of the River People Health Center on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. JTR focuses on innovative addiction treatment for Indigenous patients and is designed...
For quite some time now, Isabelle Howard has been busy working hard across the United States for a company called Deckology and experiencing a great amount of personal and professional success. “My title is ‘installer/laborer.’ Although that is my title, I do other things as well,” said Howard. Deckology is...
This year, boys’ and girls’ basketball teams from Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Alaska, Oklahoma, Florida, New Zealand and more made their way to Phoenix for the opportunity to compete in the Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI) tournament, which took place July 22–27. The annual competition boasts the best of the...
On Thursday, July 25, nineteen teams went head-to-head in the 60th Annual Southwest All-Indian Baseball Tournament. For three days, teams played games at the Salt River, Lehi and Accelerated Learning Academy baseball fields. This year, however, was a little special for families who have been enjoying this year-round event. Before...
Twenty-five years ago, Sam McCracken had an idea. A member of the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes, McCracken was working at the Nike warehouse distribution center in 1999 in Wilsonville, Oregon, when he had an idea to promote healthy lifestyles to members in his community. Slowly but surely, McCracken would begin...
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Community Garden staff invited O’odham Action News to the small garden space outside of the Cultural Resources Department offices on July 12 to demonstrate how to prepare squash after it has been harvested. “I’m showing the youth workers and day laborers the importance of...
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