Ni' Ałníi'gi

Ni' Ałníi'gi is the Navajo ceremonial name for the country around Window Rock, on the high plateau of northeastern Arizona. Navajo people call it the Center of the World, and the ground around it was thinly settled. Its best-known landmark is a sandstone formation with a hole through it, known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání, which is central to the Water Way Ceremony, or Tóee. In that ritual, medicine men carry woven water jugs to four places to fetch water, and this rock is one of them.