Native American Legends
The Navajo and the Astronaut
A Navajo Legend
Back in the 1960s a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission
took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo
Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface.
Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large
figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.
Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange
creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel. The
two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.
Since the man did not understand or speak English, his son asked
for him what the strange creatures were and the NASA people told
them that they are just men that are getting ready to go to the
moon. The man became very excited and asked if he could send a message
to the moon with the astronauts.
The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled
up a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked
his son to translate. His son would not.
Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate
and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate.
Finally, with cash in hand, someone translated the message, "Watch
out for these guys, they come to take your land."
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