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'Surviving the heat': Navajo Nation's long struggle for electricity

Jul 13, 2025
Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty's house – finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation, the largest in the United States, where more than 10,000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning.
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