Etsitty, who is Navajo, said she waited for an hour and a half to see Sanders on Thursday but didn’t make it inside the event. This time, she and her daughter were near the beginning of the line to make sure they got to see Sanders in person.

Larry Marek, who is Navajo, Hopi and Nez Perce, was one of the lucky ones to make it inside Twin Arrows on Thursday. He was back Monday night with a T-shirt covered in images of Sanders’ face and holding a poster emblazoned with #NativeLivesMatter. Marek said he was impressed by Sanders’ speech on Thursday because he mentioned issues like Native suicide, sexual assault against Native women and treaty rights.

“As an indigenous person, I feel like he is the only candidate in history that has addressed Native American issues as a serious issue,” Marek said.

While the crowd was certainly packed with passionate Sanders supporters, at least a few attendees were not in that group.

One of them, Aaron Basti, brought his 8-year-old daughter to the speech “so she can experience it.” Basti said he was a Gary Johnson supporter but was there to listen to what the candidate had to say.

Flagstaff resident Pat Walter also saw the event as a way to expose a younger generation to politics.