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Live Music Is Back at Casino Arizona

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Enterprise Casino Arizona announced the return of live music in the Showroom for its guests. The music kicked off on July 30 and 31 with the scorching rock ’n’ roll tribute band Led Zepagain, a tribute to Led Zeppelin. On August 6 and 7, The Pat Benatar Experience will pay […]

University of Arizona Releases Land Acknowledgement Statement

On its website, the University of Arizona has released an official statement that acknowledges Arizona’s 22 federally recognized Indian tribes and the Indigenous land that the main University and its satellite campuses around the state are built on. Native American scholars and students at the university worked with the Tohono O’odham Cultural Preservation Committee and […]

COVID-19 Vaccination Incentive for Enrolled SRPMIC Members

On June 30, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council approved a COVID-19 vaccination incentive for SRPMIC members to increase the number of enrolled members getting vaccinated. Currently, only 29% of SRPMIC enrolled members living in Arizona have received the COVID-19 vaccination. A total of 1,947 are fully vaccinated and 201 have received one of […]

Russell “Big Chief” Moore Received Legacy Circle Award

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community sister tribe member Russell “Big Chief” Moore (1912-1983) of the Gila River Indian Community has received the Legacy Circle Award from the International Trombone Association. The award recognizes his unparalleled accomplishments in the trombone community. Moore learned how to play the trumpet as a youth and later began playing the […]

Family Tree Workshop

The Salt River Tribal Library is offering a series of virtual workshops through its Tails & Tales Summer Reading Program. One of the recent workshops was Telling Your Family Story, a workshop focused on genealogy resource training to help Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members learn how to trace their ancestors.  The first class was […]

Interview with ‘Rutherford Falls’ Star Michael Greyeyes

Plains Cree actor Michael Greyeyes from the Muskeg Lake First Nation set aside time from filming the upcoming movie “Firestarter” to talk to O’odham Action News about his role as Terry Thomas in the hit Peacock sitcom “Rutherford Falls,” recent discoveries at boarding schools in Canada, and Native humor. “Rutherford Falls” is a fictional television […]

Historic Kia-Ha Burden Basket Walk Keeps Tradition Alive

At 4 a.m. on June 21, before the sun came up over the horizon, a group of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members began to quietly fill the front yard of Royce Manuel and Debbie Nez Manuel. The group was about to be part of something special and rare that had not happened in the […]

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