In the March 7, 2024 issue, O’odham Action News reported on the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) legislative briefing held on February 13 regarding Senate Bill 1723/H.R. 7227, otherwise known as a bill to establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act. If the bill...
So far, this summer has been scorching in the Valley of the Sun, with no end in sight. In June, Phoenix broke a record high when Sky Harbor Airport registered a temperature of 118 degrees, breaking the previous record of 115, which was set in 1983. With many weeks still...
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Maricela Hinojosa (Onk Akimel O’odham/Yaqui) was taught beadwork by her late uncle Paul Andrews. Hinojosa hadn’t beaded in a while when a close friend rekindled the spark in her at a “beading party,” and she picked up the needle again. Now, for the past...
The second annual spook-tacular celebration “The Day The Rez Stood Still 2” was held inside the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Building on July 28. The cosplay event and convention for Arizona horror fans was hosted by Woodenhead Collective, an Indigenous group that is well-known for their love of the...
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...
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...