To celebrate National Nutrition Month, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community-WIC and Public Health held a Sap ep Ka:k (“good food” in O’odham) event at the Accelerated Learning Academy gym on March 7. The event was originally planned to take place outside but was moved indoors due to inclement weather. In total there were 108 participants, […]
“Imagine this: seven baskets sitting in Neal Haga’s barn. He had 3 acres on Prince Road and First Avenue [in Tucson], a little compound back there,” said John Matis as he began telling the story of how the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community came to receive two traditional baskets during the morning of March 12 […]
This year, Westwood High School’s boys of summer come from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Entering their 2024 season, the Westwood Warriors boasted many student-athletes from the SRPMIC on both the varsity and junior varsity baseball teams. Seniors Bobby Maez and Marcus Lasiloo headline this year’s varsity team for Westwood. “I’d like to continue […]
Several groups of seniors and youth gathered for a multi-department collaboration event at the Scottsdale Community College (SCC) Indigenous Cultural Center (ICC) and Garden on March 9 called Nurturing Generations Through the Garden. Staff from the college’s American Indian Program Center for Native and Urban Wildlife and garden volunteers worked side by side at the […]
By Juan Ysaguirre (O’odham Action News) and Gary Owens (Huhugam Ki: Museum Manager) On March 23, another annual celebration in the Salt River-Pima Maricopa Indian Community brought out the best of the best tortilla makers and celebrated all things cemait (O’odham) and modiily (Piipaash). Entering its third year, the Tortilla Festival was organized by the […]
The future of fine art photography in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is in great hands. On the weekend of March 2 and 3 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, three students currently enrolled at the Accelerated Learning Academy received top honors for their photography work. Cynthia Morataya, Jasmin Richards and Vanessa Francisco submitted […]
President Joe Biden was in the Valley on March 19 and 20 to visit semiconductor manufacturer Intel’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler. He was there to announce that the U.S. Department of Commerce has reached a preliminary agreement with Intel to provide up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans under the […]