The community name of Teec Nos Pos (pronounced Tease-Nhas-phas) is an English variation on the Navajo words Tiis nazbas, which has a Navajo meaning of "circle of cottonwood trees". The Teec Nos Pos Trading Post is an old fashioned trading post, established in 1905 in the Navajo Nation. It has faithfully maintained the old fashion trading post traditions initiated by the Noel and Foutz families. Hamblin Bridger Noel was the first white man the Navajos permitted to establish a post in this section of the reservation.