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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."

Responses to "The Navajo and the Astronaut - Native American Legend"

  1. Anonymous says:

    Brilliant, you gotta love the old guys

  2. Anonymous says:

    Love that!

  3. Anonymous says:

    But they were so incompetent they forgot to come back and left the chinese to put in the railroad first.

  4. Anonymous says:

    *smiling* cute but unfortunately it's true.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Thats sad but true.

  6. Anonymous says:

    I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A REAL STORY, BUT I LIKE IT!!!!!

  7. Anonymous says:

    History repeats all to often we need to learn from it and Stop repeating it ..Humm y is That..Peace to all ppls of this small Rock

  8. Anonymous says:

    j'adore !!

  9. Anonymous says:

    If it isn't true at least it was very well invented!
    Watch the beginnings!

  10. Danceswithhorses says:

    I don't doubt for a minute that what he said was the "TRUTH".

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