Note: this is a sidebar to another news article titled “Navajos win another battle in war for equality.”
* 5.2 million acres; 1.2 million of that is reservation land
* 6,800 Navajo residents, 76 percent of them living on the reservation
* 54 percent of the county population is Navajo
* 60 percent of the Navajos don’t have running water or electricity
* 50 percent of Navajos are unemployed; the state rate is 5.3 percent
* More than 50 percent of Navajos don’t have high school diplomas; the non-graduating rate is 40 percent for the entire county and 15 percent for the state
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline San Juan County, Utah.
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