Look Through Any Window

Window Rock is a small park near the Navajo Nation Administration Center featuring the graceful sandstone arch for which the capital is named. The Navajo Nation extends into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, covering over 27,000 square miles of unparalleled beauty. The Navajo Nation headquarters and other government offices are built in close proximity to this mystical rock formation. Tseghahoodzani (The Performated Rock), which is adjacent and north of the Navajo Service administration buildings, is important in the Water Way Ceremony (Tohee). It was one of the 4 places where Navajo medicine men go with their woven water bottles to get water for the ceremony that is held for abundant rain. Tseyaato (Spring Under the Rock) is located in the rock formation just south of the Haystacks (rounded sandstone monoliths) and beside the NM State Hwy 264 between Gallup, New Mexico and Window Rock, Arizona. This spring, which seeps from under the rock was the first stopping place out of Fort Defiance when some 4,000 Navajos in the area started their "Long Walk" to Fort Sumner in 1864. Photograph is credited to Don B. Stevenson of Arizona Highways, (Sept. of 2004)