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On a perfect fall day in Wisconsin, the teams from the state of Washington: Gonzaga, Washington State and Washington checked out the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course, where many of the best teams in the NCAA will race in the Nuttycombe Invitational, perhaps the best collegiate cross country meet of the regular season.

According to the @ustfccca there are 39 nationally ranked Division I teams in the field, including 21 men’s teams and 18 women’s squads.

📸 Paul Merca

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The films are here and we can’t wait to share them with you. Meet the 2026 CFMF feature films.

Passes are on sale with the link in bio, and preregristration for passholders starts tomorrow!

Individual tickets go on sale next week (dependent upon availability). Check the link in our bio!

October 16–25

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A wonderful weekend to welcome the 2026 cross country season in Colfax.

#GoCougs #NextIsNow

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We’re proud to support @remainingnative and @wings_of_america as they bring this special two-day event to the Coeur d’Alene community as part of a four-stop Remaining Native Run Camp Film Tour.

The Coeur d’Alene stop will feature a special Friday night screening and community panel with @ku_stevens, followed by a Saturday run camp hosted by Wings that brings together movement, culture, wellness, and the rich history of Native running.

📍 Friday, October 2 | Rose Creek Longhouse | 6:30 PM 🎬 Film Screening + Panel

📍 Saturday, October 3 | Coeur Center | 9 AM 🏃🏽‍♀️ Run Camp

Open to all ages! Bring a friend or the whole family to walk, run, learn, play, and connect. Lunch and games included! We hope to see you there.

🔗 Link to register in bio!

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This past week, our crew had the opportunity to spend some time in Noatak, Alaska, hosting a running camp alongside alumni from @fortlewiscollege.

Thanks to the incredible support of our sponsors, we were able to bring every member of the Noatak cross country team new running shoes, uniforms, bags, and other gear to help them take on the season ahead.

Weeks like this are why we do what we do. We truly believe sports can save lives. They create connection, build confidence, give young people something to work toward, and remind them that they have a team and a community behind them.

We capped off an unforgettable week with a community fun run to bring everyone together for a few more miles, a lot of laughs, and a pretty special ending to our time in Noatak.

We’re grateful to everyone who helped make this week possible and even more grateful to the Noatak community for welcoming us in. We’ll be cheering this team on every step of the way, we already can’t wait to come back.

#alaska #noatak #fortlewiscollege #running #crosscountry

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• August has been great ⏩ new beginnings 💪

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We are honored to have been a part of Rememberance Run 2026. Thank you to the Stevens family and Remaining Native team for once again partnering with us to bring screen printing to your event! Participants hands-on printed Ku Stevens' artwork on shirts as part of the pre-run activities, which also included a screening of the Remaining Native documentary.
The Stevens family hosted the 50-mile Rememberance Run from Yerington to the Stewart Indian School over the following two days. Over 100 people came together to honor the children who survived Indian boarding schools and to remember those who never came home.

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Recap of the 2026 Remembrance! I represented Team Rising Hearts (@rising_hearts) alongside Rocío (@thexicanaexplorer) and Missy (@ellicul_lucy

Flew into Reno, NV a day early to settle in and explore the area. Mural by Numu & Diné artist Autumn Harry (@numu_wanderer)

This bookstore was called The Radical Cat and had cats to adopt. Unfortunately she wasn’t going to be flying back with me 🥲💕 We were looking at birds outside 🤣

Wanted to get a lil shakeout run in and googled “are there any reno run clubs that are meeting on thursdays” and ARC popped up! We had 15 min to make it there lol. Fun group to start off the weekend @ascentrunclub.reno

And the views 😮‍💨

We head to Yerington Paiute Reservation where the 50 mile journey will start - set up camp, screen print t shirts, make prayer ties, eat dinner, and watch the @remainingnative film!

The moment the film ended, a shooting star flew by. A sign that this was going to be a special weekend 💫 (Pic from before the film started)

More background: The Remembrance Run is hosted by Kutoven Stevens (@ku_stevens) to retrace the 50-mile escape his great-grandfather took to escape the Stewart Indian School. This run is split into two days (25 miles per day), with overnight camping and storytelling at Sunrise Pass. There’s stops every 5 miles to regroup and refresh. No one is left behind! This year’s route went from Yerington Paiute Tribe Reservation to the Stewart Indian School Museum, and there was 135 people in attendance.

Saturday morning - 5AM wake up, breakfast, pack up camp, circle up, and begin the journey!

I’m grateful for Rocío and Missy in my life. They are Indigenous matriarchs I look up to. 🪶❤️

Sunset on Day 1 - 25 miles done and dusted…or dusty 😅 Just running on dirt roads under the hot desert sun. (My legs only cramped once btw). We set up camp and eat dinner. There is a giveaway with so many donated items that we go through every name 3-4 times 🌱

We end Day 1 with storytelling - sharing what brought us here, why we’re running/walking, who we’re running for. I shared that my grandpa Bernard attended boarding school and my grandma Myra’s family moved off reserve/changed their name and avoided go

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Kuuk was honored to support the annual Remembrance Run this year.

Hosted by the Stevens family, the 50-mile journey honors survivors and descendants of the Stewart Indian School and other Indian boarding schools, while remembering the children who never came home. The route retraces the journey of Kutoven Stevens’ great-grandfather, (Togo) Frank Quinn, who escaped Stewart Indian School in the early 1900s and ran home to the Yerington Paiute Tribal Reservation.

The Remembrance Run is about more than the miles. It’s about remembering those who came before, creating space for healing, celebrating the culture that endured, and bringing people together through understanding and connection.

As Ku says, “This is not just about running, it’s about healing.”

We’re incredibly grateful to have supported this year’s journey and everyone who helped carry its purpose forward.

#kuuk #remainingnative #rememberancerun #kuugaq

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It's a week now since we landed in Reno. I did not want to leave. I am so grateful for the hard work and humility of @ku_stevens, his mother Misty and father Delmar, the Stevens family and their community in the Paiute Tribe in Yerington, the @remainingnative documentary team, and the people that came from nearby and across the country to participate and support the Remembrance Run. I have never felt so welcomed, supported, and at home in a place I've never been before. The land I was privileged enough to run on is so beautiful, so vast, and so encompassing that I feel like a changed person.

Thank you for the photos and the running @smanitowabi and @rising_hearts crew!

I'm honored to have gotten the chance to run with such inspiring athletes, advocates and individuals. Miigwetch, until next time 🧡✊️

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This weekend, Tillie @tilliebob15 participated in the @ku_stevens @remainingnative @stewart.museum Remembrance Run 2026. A 50-mile run from Yerington to the Stewart Indian School, to pay respect at the Stewart Cemetery.

And then, among all the tables and organizations present at the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum, we happened to spot a familiar story:

“A Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power.

A book we had previously read together as part of our book club. Cora was sent to Carlisle Indian School. Lilian and Blanche forced to attend a Catholic boarding school.

Culture, history and literature are connected. Stories carry memory. Stories help us remember what happened, honor those who came before us, and make space for the voices that have too often been silenced.

The Remembrance Run and the work of remembering boarding school survivors exists in one space, while Indigenous literature and the stories being shared by Native authors exist in another and somehow, they intersected right in front of us.

That coincidence felt significant. 🧡

Our book club is about more than simply reading books. We believe in creating space for Indigenous authors, Indigenous stories, cultural knowledge, conversation, and connection.

Seeing it lying atop at a table during an event dedicated to remembering boarding school victims, and it reminds you exactly why these stories need to continue being told.

Tillie is already hoping to return for the 2027 Remembrance Run, this time with a team! We’re putting out some feelers now to see who might be interested in joining.

Who wants to run next year?

🎵: @jayliwolf

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