The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Community Development Department (CDD), Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Division (EPNR), received important recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certifying the Community’s ability to implement high-level water testing requirements.  According to Regina Leverette Mason, SRPMIC Senior Environmental Engineer, this status is called Treatment as a State (TAS). […]

Christopher Lomahquahu O’odham Action News Christopher.Lomahquahu@srpmic-nsn.gov Sarah Edwards-Bradley, a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member from the Lehi Community, and her husband Kevin Bradley Jr. together operate Sea of Ink Tattoo Studio, which is located on Main Street just east of Val Vista Drive in Mesa.  We spoke with Bradley, while the couple was on […]

A treatment facility with the mission to help people recover from addiction recently broke ground on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. On May 9, SRPMIC leaders, Health and Human Services (HHS) staff and Community members currently in addiction recovery turned over loose soil to usher in the Journey to Recovery treatment facility on a […]

The Office of Congressional & Legislative Affairs is launching a survey of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members to learn about their voting patterns and what gets them to the polls on Election Day.  During the senior breakfast hosted by the SRPMIC Senior Services program on May 3 at the Talking Stick Resort, OCLA Intergovernmental […]

On May 5, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced the members of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Task Force, which she created on March 7 by executive order. Three representatives from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are on the task force: Chief Prosecutor Alane Breland, Council member Mikah Carlos and Council member Wi-Bwa Grey. […]

On May 12, the newly branded Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony to signify the name-in-title sponsorship and partnership between Talking Stick Resort and Live Nation. The 20,000-seat outdoor venue in west Phoenix was originally named Desert Sky Pavilion from 1988 to 1996, and it was most recently known as the Ak-Chin […]

As more O’odham and Piipaash members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community are going back to their roots and getting to know more about the traditional uses of the plants on the land, O’odham Action News spoke with community garden technician Amson Collins to help educate the Community about these plants. In January 2022 […]

The Scottsdale Community College Indigenous Cultural Center organized and hosted a Missing and Murdered Awareness Day Prayer and Walk on May 5 to remember Indigenous individuals who have been victims of violent crime.  Scottsdale Community College students, faculty and leadership were invited to take part in the morning’s events. Since the campus is situated on […]