For The People

Memorial Day 2026

Remembering the fallen in Sells, AZ

Si has em elid. 🙌🏽

First time ever on the Tohono, Military Flyover honoring our fallen hero’s. 8:30 a.m. sharp Sells, AZ Tohono O’odham Veterans Park.

When early archaeologists and explorers first documented this symbol at Casa Grande Ruins in the late 1800s, they noted how unusual it appeared for the American Southwest. The design had been carefully etched into the plastered wall of the Great House by the ancient Hohokam and was recorded during surveys of the ruins in Arizona Territory. Researchers at the time compared the symbol to the famous labyrinth design seen on ancient coins from Crete associated with the legend of the Minotaur.

The symbol was discovered during a period of growing archaeological interest in the American Southwest, when expeditions were beginning to formally study and preserve ancient Indigenous sites. Casa Grande itself became one of the first protected archaeological landmarks in the United States after increasing attention from explorers and scholars in the late nineteenth century.

What made the find especially notable was that it appeared inside the massive adobe structure known as the Great House, a building already considered extraordinary because of its age, scale, and mysterious purpose.