message to the moon
About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts to the terrain of the Navajo Reservation near Tuba City.There the terrain looks very much like the lunar surface.
Among all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full lunar spacesuits.
Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by other NASA personnel.
The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.
Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him who the strange creatures were.
The NASA people told them that they were just men that were 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, someone translated the message,
“Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land.”
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