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...
On Thursday, July 25, nineteen teams went head-to-head in the 60th Annual Southwest All-Indian Baseball Tournament. For three days, teams played games at the Salt River, Lehi and Accelerated Learning Academy baseball fields. This year, however, was a little special for families who have been enjoying this year-round event. Before...
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...
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...
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...
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...