The fact that anyone in the United States lacks electricity, running water, etc. should be considered by all of our politicians to be a national crisis and they should have all hands on deck to rectify the issue immediately. But unfortunately they care more about lining their own pockets than serving the people

Why should they have to pay for power at all? Incredible.

These injustices need to stop, give power to all of the Navajo people, your towers are on their land.

I was 9- 60 years ago- when my grandmother in rural Mississippi got an electric stove. I remember how excited she was...so that must be a tiny piece of how exciting it must be to get electricity! Congratulations!

Oh. The good ol'days. I am navajo. I miss hauling water, cutting wood for winter and living off the land. Winters are tough especially for the old, sick and young. I'll admit it, there was a winter when my grandmother thought we weren't going to make to summer - a lot of snow, about 3ft of it blocked the door. I'm not sure why the Navajo nation- we have our own government- is taking forever to make a difference. Please don't bring up Casinos as a form of reparations, that's a myth. It goes back to the US Government.

This makes me cry because all my life I never understood why we don’t have power yet we have all these coal mines on our land. I never thought the cost falls on the families on the land. Which is dumb bc yes we are a sovereign nation but does not the US government promote the general welfare?

I've recently been watching videos on the brutal colonisation and the horrors and atrocities committed against these beautiful American Indians. I have deep respect for their ways of living and rich culture. Listening to the elderly lady speaking filled my heart with such sadness and pain. Their ancestors lived in balance with the land for 10,000 plus years which was resource rich and was stolen from them. It is so sad and appalling the living conditions they have been forced to endure even to the present day. Polluting their environment with coal mining and electricity lines on their land yet not suppling each and every home with electricity at no charge is appalling treatment The true history of what happened to Indigenous peoples all around the world should be taught in schools and be required reading. I'm all the way over in Australia and wish to help get their land back and see them once again thrive in their cultural practices and revive their languages.

wow!!!!!!! it's just WRONG for the true American that actually owns these land, to NOT have power, but yet out government gives millions of dollars to other countries, U.S government build schools, build roads, build cities in other countries but yet here we are, we can't even help the true American in this country, I'm I the only one seeing this shit?

Even people in Poland have electrisity and running water.

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Great to see the land giving back to the people. Hopefully other energy sources can be taken advantage of too like wind power. Be great if solar power can give the people a income too

dude, all the best for them !

I stay the survival ways no matter what..... silent prayer

I have a fraction of native DNA, and what was done years ago to the native Americans was so wrong, and what is still going on is so wrong, I would like to help if I could, I am not in much of a better situation, but I have skills I picked up over the years, I live of grid, these ppl need to get forklift batteries, even used ones will help alot, they still have life, they just will not run the lift for 8-10 hours, and most can be setup for any voltage, 12,24,36,48v, or seriesed for more, and there is probably good wind for powering a wind turbine, to generate good power, it seems many small wind turbines is the was to go. Between 500 watts and 2500-3000 watts, and can be bought for about $1200 average, and can even be built at home, it could rally help ppl in the reservation, maybe build a neighborhood power plant from solar and wind, its what we all need to do, to save our planet, putting up 6 or so 3kw wind turbines, and a large solar array, panels can be bought used , in good working condition, in Az, for $0.40 per watt, the power could be sold to the ppl, to help pay for the system, a house can be run easily on a 3kw, inverter, build a central power plant, with the batteries and inverters, and if the houses aremy too far away simply wire it up, or build smaller powerplants between houses to cut down distance, and for houses out on their own, a 3kw turbine and 3 kw of solar would be plenty, I wish I had that much!! Just some crazy thoughts from someone who is only trying to help with ideas!

Where are the Indian Affairs, tribal leaders, the governor, Congress, Senate, Red Cross or FEMA?? Appalling the Native American people are left like this!!

I am interested in the solar system I'm a single parent with child

I find it not only sad but Shameful that the Leaders get so much Federal money yet the tribe members get little to nothing. A couple of yrs ago the federal gov't started a program to give over $33Million to the Navajo nations ANNUALLY. Where that money went is,,well, who knows. Add to that, the TAX FREE Casinos and Tax free cigarette market from these reservations combined make BILLIONS and the Peoples get hardly anything from it. Navajo peoples should be living comfortably with all the gov't funding, casino and tax free markets on the Res. But as I talk to the people living there, drive through the areas where the Res is located. all I see is Empty Wine, Whiskey and Beer bottles along the highway like a solid carpet of GLASS. NOTHING has been done to address the Drug, Organized Crime and Alcohol problems these People face. And NO ONE on this comment sections says a damn thing about it. DISGUSTINGLY DISTURBING.

Could anyone (D'ne) contact me to discuss the electricity problem ?

Why has this taken so long?

Off the grid,people are always impeding progress. They want something in return for the right of away through their supposed land. People always want a house built or something for the electricity to pass through. NTUA's wifi is always dropping now and then.

This is so wrong! How dare they do this to the Navajo Nation and other Native Nations. Creator of the Earth and Almighty God in the heavens help them! She shouldn't have to move. Thats their land. From a Chiricahua Apache.

The goverment should help bring power to this rez .they stole so much land from them .why stupid war machines to be built. Treatys are broken .put up casino thats only way to get money back from the cha mookamon. Thats what they understand is thier money they created. Ahooo to my brothers an sister.s time is short .

I’m Ojibway & I want to live with the Navajo

So glad solar is the blessing needed for these peoples ? Solar is the future for ALL Americans ,out here in rhe rural Oregon solar is showing up on more and more roof tops ,but the batteries are expensive for some of us too so how come the casinos do fund them for you guys or great more jobs for you people by inviting more tourists and resorts to help with income? That while desert and can't grow crops or raise lamas or something good riddance

Curious if the solar systems are from the guys from Albq?

The electric power leaks from the wires catch it with modern catchers

The entire privy seems too much. It was not that amount when they went through. The people were ask to be educated in dealing with electric and the supply was to have a stationary place there. All the lack about the going through had answers. Cost seems frivolous unless cruelty is reason. All material is less than .

What happened to all that money the Navajo tribe when they sued the 🇺🇸 government five hundred fifty four million that money should help the people that need electricity Navajo government is so far behind

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Easy to add more batteries over time for more power.

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Why didn't they build there own small community closer together? Doesn't the government send them money each month?