The NAU Review — Celebrate Native American Heritage Month, World Vegan Day and a Big Sky win!

Nov. 1, 2022

Participate in different events, including speakers, panels, Stew Fest, Rock Your Mocs and a variety of other interactive and educational activities. The month recognizes the significance of Native American history, culture and issues and what this means to our students, faculty, staff and the Flagstaff community. “Most importantly,” Ora Marek-Martinez said, “we would like to take the time this month to educate our communities about the important sacrifices and contributions that Native Americans have made to our country and communities.” NAU sits at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, on homelands sacred to Native Americans throughout the region. We honor their past, present and future generations who have lived here for millennia and will forever call this place home.

The NAU cross country teams successfully defended their titles as Big Sky conference champions. They swept the men’s and women’s team and individual titles. For the women’s team, Elise Stearns won the individual title after making her move in the last mile to take the lead, finishing with a time of 16:25.3. Nico Young led for the entire race, finishing first with a time of 22:31.5. Ten NAU scorers were named to the Big Sky All-Conference Team. NAU cross country has one week off before they resume postseason competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Mountain Regionals.