In 1966, 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 know 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.”
[thanks for the forward to history professor and old colleague of mine in
the faculty bay at Pillsbury College, Dave McGuire]
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”