Sovereign Power

摘要

I'M ORIGINALLY FROM a Navajo Nation community called Pueblo Pintado, in New Mexico. Because my parents were teachers in the 1970s, we had electricity at our house on the reservation. My grandparents didn't. They lived on an isolated part of the Navajo Nation, and when I visited them, I went to bed earlier, and it was a lot more quiet. We would hike in the canyons and herd sheep, or chop wood or ride horses. There were big electricity lines going through the reservation from coal-fired power plants, but they bypassed the houses. I didn't think much of it because my grandparents always had kerosene lanterns.