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

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. The Navajo people keep their native traditions, even as they embrace a modern retail economy and a presidential form of government. They have many of the same aspirations of education and material success, and they face the same social issues as the rest of the country: poverty, drug abuse, and broken families....