Indian Power (Native Americans)

The coal-fired power plant outside of Page, Arizona, is one of the biggest in the country, and an economic backbone of the Navajo Indian reservation (Native Americans).
The three smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station can be seen from miles around in the dusty northern Arizona desert.
The plant is an imposing structure, sitting right on the edge of the Navajo reservation and surrounded by wide expanses of sagebrush and sandstone rock formations.
It was built in the early 1970s as part of a federal project to pump Colorado River water more than 300 miles along a canal south to Phoenix and Tucson.
That water helped fuel the population boom in the desert Southwest, and today, the 2,250-megawatt power plant supplies electricity to more than a million customers.

The towering Glen Canyon Dam is just out of site on the lower right side of the frame as we see the water of Lake Powell. The white band above the waterline shows a very low water level caused by drought.
This image was captured on film with a 6x7 Pentax medium format camera.