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Nike N7 Announces Funding for Arizona Tribal Communities at Tempe Marketplace

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...

Community Garden Staff Harvests and Prepares Squash

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...

SRPMIC Athletes Compete in Annual Piestewa Games

This year, more than 4,000 Indigenous athletes from 50 tribes across Indian Country in the United States, Canada and Mexico participated in the annual Lori Piestewa Native American Games. Established in 2003, the games commemorate the life and legacy of Lori Piestewa, the first woman in the U.S. military to...

Salt River Ba’ag Competes in First Annual MarJon Beauchamp All-Native Invitational

MarJon Beauchamp is a professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA Milwaukee Bucks. Beauchamp is from the Mission Indian tribes as well as the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, both located in Southern California. He was a first-round pick in the NBA Draft in 2022 and will be...

Continuing Traditions at the Huhugam Ki: Museum

For over 20 years, the Huhugam Ki Museum staff has dedicated one week every summer to teaching young Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members how to make tortillas (or, in the O’odham language, cemait). During the week of July 15-19, a group of youth spent their early mornings at the...

Preservation Anthropologist Aaron Wright Provides Piipaash History Presentation

Archaeology Southwest is a Tucson-based nonprofit organization that was established nearly three decades ago. The organization practices preservation archaeology, a term which contains three distinct phases: pursuing big-picture research questions through low-impact investigative methods, sharing results with professionals and the public, and actively protecting sites through ownership and/or conservation easements....

‘Pathway to Home Ownership’ Program Helps Members Become Mortgage Ready

On June 25, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Pathway to Home Ownership program held a meeting for all SRPMIC members with the goal of outlining the process of becoming a homeowner. The meeting was held in Two Waters’ A building in room 107. Lori Calderon, community outreach supervisor from...