The Salt River Tribal Library is offering a series of virtual workshops through its Tails & Tales Summer Reading Program. One of the recent workshops was Telling Your Family Story, a workshop focused on genealogy resource training to help Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members learn how to trace their ancestors.  The first class was […]

As of July 5, the Salt River Court has resumed regular operations, including in-person court hearings. The Court is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding Community holidays.  SRPMIC Administrative Order 21-0001, issued on July 2, makes it possible to resume regular operations. The order states that all […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Department of Transportation was among 49 entities in 46 states to receive grant funding from the federal Low or No Emission Program. The SRPMIC DOT will receive $611,840 out of the overall $182 million in funding awarded.  “The grant was submitted in April of this year,” said Transit Manager […]

Plains Cree actor Michael Greyeyes from the Muskeg Lake First Nation set aside time from filming the upcoming movie “Firestarter” to talk to O’odham Action News about his role as Terry Thomas in the hit Peacock sitcom “Rutherford Falls,” recent discoveries at boarding schools in Canada, and Native humor. “Rutherford Falls” is a fictional television […]

At 4 a.m. on June 21, before the sun came up over the horizon, a group of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members began to quietly fill the front yard of Royce Manuel and Debbie Nez Manuel. The group was about to be part of something special and rare that had not happened in the […]

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Day celebration on June 14 carried on virtually, bringing Community members together to honor the existence of the O’odham and Piipaash tribes and the land the Community calls home. Because the Community is in Phase 2 of the Return to Work Plan of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no […]

The Salt River Art Trail is ready to be explored. The Art Trail encompasses a series of art installations extending from the heart of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to the Talking Stick Entertainment District. The trail features sculpture, photography and other visual arts by SRPMIC artists Jeffrey Fulwilder, Anthony Collins, Dwayne Manuel and […]

After dedicating 24 years to working for the Community, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Assistant Community Manager Kent Andrews will be retiring from his position on July 2. Andrews developed and mentored several department heads that resulted in some of the strongest departments operating in the Community today, such as Engineering and Construction Services, Public […]