It was a cloudless but windy day in late April of 2013 in front of the Navajo Nation Council Chambers, the capital building for the government of the largest Indian tribe in the United States. Based in northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and parts of southern Utah, the Navajo Nation is a large desolate region of high deserts, shallow canyons, deep arroyos, and jetting sandstone that defines much of the Colorado Plateau, one of the continent’s most unique and rugged landscapes. The famous Monument Valley, now a backdrop of Americana, is located at the northern boundary of the reservation. But in April, Navajo coal workers from the only coal mine in Arizona and one of the largest in the country, the Kayenta Mine, gathered in front of the Council Chambers in support of a council legislation to renew the controversial lease with the region’s largest and most carbon-emitting power.