{"id":70465,"date":"2023-11-01T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=70465"},"modified":"2023-11-01T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T23:12:32","slug":"nahm-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nahm-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating ancestry, traditions and impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The NAU community is invited to celebrate Native American Heritage Month and honor the Indigenous community with a month of events and celebrations that foster awareness of Indigenous peoples, cultures and their contributions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU aims to support Indigenous Lumberjacks by developing programs and opportunities that offer a chance at a better and brighter future through higher education, meanwhile providing a support system through a unified and respectable community that celebrates their history and culture through events, including Native American Heritage Month.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cNative American Heritage Month is a time when there is a focus on Native American history, contributions, talents, cultures, traditions, Indigenous knowledge and achievements,\u201d said <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ann Marie Chischilly<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, vice president of Native American Initiatives. \u201cWe are honored to share about our legacy and ways of being with our communities.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">More than 1,500 students from more than 115 tribes find a home away from home through the Native American Cultural Center (NACC), which every November joins with the Office of Indigenous Student Success (OISS) to bring to life a plethora of culture-enriching events such as the Stew Fest; a longstanding Lumberjack tradition that introduces the campus to traditional native flavors. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/indigenous\/events\/\">See the list of events online.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nahm-2023\/\">The NAU community is invited to celebrate Native American Heritage Month and honor the Indigenous community with a month of events and celebrations that foster awareness of Indigenous peoples, cultures and their contributions.\u00a0 NAU aims to support Indigenous Lumberjacks by developing programs and opportunities that offer a chance at a better and brighter future through&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":70467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}