A team comprised of SRPMIC Seniors, management, staff, wildlife biologists, environmental specialists and others collaborated on March 12 in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to conduct an eagle banding. In the United States, bird banding was established in 1920. During that time, most species like ducks and geese were...
Students at the Kerr Center for Agriscience, a public school in Mesa, have a chance to learn hands-on skills in the agriscience and environmental sustainability fields through outdoor land lab lessons. One of the school’s programs allows for students to take care of an animal of their choice in preparation...
Being together with family can be a positive and crucial cornerstone aspect in anyone’s life. With family, we learn how to communicate, express our emotions, interact with people and showcase our love for each other as we all grow and navigate life and its many journeys. Here in the Salt...
The O’odham Action News – can be found at a variety of locations throughout the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Your O’odham Action News team designs each issue of the newspaper that is published the first and third Thursday of each month and sends it out digitally to two places...
For quite some time now, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Department of Health and Human Service Prevention and Intervention Service webinars have seen a gradual increase of attendees. When you look at it one way, the continued growth of the webinar class sizes can be possibly attributed to the...
Gaining inspiration from the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s RedCan Graffiti Jam in South Dakota, Natasha Martinez created a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community version of the popular event. The Community’s first ever Echoes of the Akimel Festival was hosted by Youth Services and gave youth the opportunity to paint murals...
**This article was originally an online exclusive published on March 20. It has since been updated.** U.S. Army Veteran Michael Leon completed his duty on a recent March morning in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The duty, unforeseen only months ago, overwhelmed Leon with emotion once it was completed. Leon...