The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Behavioral Health Services is offering Positive Indian Parenting classes online to all Community members to help build stronger children and families. The eight-week series features class every Thursday from 12 noon to 1:20 p.m. All are welcome to join and learn about parenting topics such as Traditional Behavior Modifications, […]
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community member Angelina Montoya is the 15-year-old daughter of Julio and Melissa Montoya and a ninth-grade student at Westwood High School. She started playing basketball at age 9 in the Salt River Friendship Youth Sports League. Montoya has had the opportunity to play in many league games and tournaments across the […]
The online world is a whole different beast. Within the last 10 years, it has been proven that one can really do and buy almost anything online. When COVID-19 hit, the internet proved to be our most powerful asset for purchasing our necessities. However, when it comes to things we want, like the newest tech, […]
Valentine’s Day is a holiday that revolves around romantic love, but it also inspires friendship, appreciation and kindness. Valentine’s Day is a day to remember what is important in life: the people who surround us and how much we care for them. How we celebrate Valentine’s Day comes in all forms for all different types […]
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is more than just a reservation with a border. There is a whole history here, and our sister tribes share the same history. Just because the reservation has a border, that doesn’t mean that there is nothing beyond the borders related to the O’odham or Piipaash. Central and southern […]
Here at O’odham Action News, we are continuing to highlight the Community members here in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. With extra time due to COVID-19 quarantines, many people saw 2020 as an opportunity to find new hobbies or rediscover already existing hobbies. When one thinks of “collecting,” there are many possibilities that come to […]
The year 2020 became the year when we all had to learn to be patient, work from home and hunker down at home. When the COVID-19 pandemic started, one of the first key questions was about kids and schools: whether to keep them open and possibly help spread the virus, or transition to learning from […]