On June 1, 1994, President Peterson Zah of the Navajo Nation marked this site with a 20- ton boulder from Fort Defiance, where many of the Navajo prisoners had surrendered in 1863. This rock is symbol of the spiritual weight cast upon the Navajo culture here at Hwee/di, the place of suffering. The Treaty Rock marks the end of this period. On June 1, 1868, the Navajo Treaty was signed in this field and prisoners walked home as free people of a sovereign Navajo Nation.
We are the Dine.
Our endurance lies in our beliefs, prayers, chants, language and wisdom.
Holding these truths, we return to our homeland within our sacred mountains.
Our Strength endures everlasting
In Beauty We Walk
In Beauty We Walk
In Beauty We Walk
In Beauty We Walk
