Etymology

Window Rock

Today it means: The capital of Navajo Nation, a tribal nation, sovereign domestic dependent nation of the United States, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, of the Dine People, within the nominal borders of Arizona. Full definition →

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The story

From window + rock, in reference to a hole in the rock wall of a ridge.

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