Election Shows Native American Vote Is ‘Force to Be Recognized’

In the traditionally Democrat-voting Navajo Nation, bread-and-butter issues swung more voters toward the GOP in 2024.

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.—With a population of more than 165,000 people, the Navajo Nation is the largest indigenous reservation in the United States, occupying 16 million acres, about the size of West Virginia.

It is a land of stunning desert beauty, with majestic mountains, sandstone canyons, and red-rock formations, and highways that stretch for miles with the rising and setting sun.