A hand-painted “Trump 4 Navajos” sign sits across from the main gas station in Window Rock as a cold wind whistles across the mesas and canyons of the vast Navajo Nation.

Opposing political signage sits on an approach road: “Trump’s Project 2025: Monitors Your Pregnancy.”

The land, which for 40 years was mined ruthlessly for Uranium, causing its Native populations a myriad of health issues, is now mostly given over to grazing, monuments and sacred sites.

Democrats anticipated Navajo voters, like those living in Window Rock, would help Kamala Harris to victory as they had Joe Biden in 2020 - by a margin of 11,000 votes.

However, an exit poll found that Native people disproportionately voted Republican by 65 per cent to 35 per cent Harris.