One food plant traditionally grown by the O’odham since the 17th century is most commonly known as the I’itoi sivol, a type of multiplier onion, which means that the plant produces small, clustered bulbs. These onions most likely came from Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, the Jesuit missionary who traveled through this area in the late […]
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community celebrated Native American Recognition Days (NARD) with a series of virtual and drive-thru events. On Tuesday, September 21, the Community Relations Office Events Division released two videos via social media. The first video is a recap of the 2019 NARD that showed events such as the fashion show and […]
Every October, we cover Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the O’odham Action News. We cite the statistics, noting that more than 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the United States. About 42,000 of them die from the disease each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We […]
In 2018, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community drafted a proclamation to commit to a campaign that would battle the increasing trend of illegal drug use and distribution and its resulting deaths. Council directed tribal government staff to create a comprehensive campaign to strengthen existing programs and launch new initiatives to combat negative drug- and […]
The fight against the Line 3 oil pipeline has brought people from around the country to Minnesota to stand up for the rights and way of life of the Anishinaabe peoples. Line 3 is a pipeline owned by Enbridge, headquartered in Alberta, Canada, that is being built from Canada’s tar sands area in Hardisty, Alberta, […]
On September 22, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community DHHS Prevention & Intervention Services held an online Suicide Awareness Conference, which focused on the causes and prevention of suicide. After an opening prayer invocation, Monica Tsethlikai, PhD (A:shiwi [Zuni] Nation), associate professor at the T. Denny Stanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona […]
Ramón Lopez: Ramóncito and Company Ramón Lopez is a waila/chicken scratch musician from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community who plays with his band Ramóncito and Company. Growing up, Lopez said he didn’t have any musical influences until his grandma took him to his first dance when he was 9 years old. As he became […]