




| The Great Seal of the Navajo Nation was designed by Mr. John Claw, Jr., of Many Farms, Arizona, and was officially adopted by the Navajo Tribal Council on January 18, 1952, by resolution CJ-9-52. The Great Seal had forty eight projectile points or arrowheads symbolizing the Navajo Nations protection within the forty eight states (as of 1952). Since then, two points have been added to represent the entire fifty states of the United States. The opening at the top of the three concentric lines is considered the East. The lines represent the rainbow and sovereignty of the Navajo Nation. The rainbow never closes on the Nation's sovereignty. The outside line is red, the middle line is yellow and the inside line, blue. The yellow sun shines from the east on the four sacred mountains, Sisnaajinii, Tsoodzil, Dook'o'oslííd, and Dibé Ntsaa. Yoolgaii, Dootl'izhii, Diichili, and Baashzhinii are the sacred mountain ceremonial stones. Two cornstalks with pollen symbolizes the sustainer of Navajo life. A horse, cow, and sheep, located in the center, symbolizes the Navajo livestock. |
| Navajo Nation Primary Drinking Water Regulations |
| Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency • Public Water Systems Supervision Program |

The copper color outlines the present reservation, with the original Treaty of 1868 rainbow, symbolizing sovereignty arches over the Navajo Nation. In the center of the reservation, a circular symbol depicts the sun above two green stalks of corn an oil derrick symbolizing the resource potential of the Nation, and above this are modern sawmill symbolizes the progress and industry currently characteristic of the Nation's development. |