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From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When NASA was preparing for the Apollo project, they did some
> astronaut training on a Navajo Indian reservation. One day, a Navajo
> elder and his son were herding sheep and came across the space crew.
> The old man, who only spoke Navajo, asked a question, which his son
> translated. "What are the guys in the big suits doing?"
>
> A member of the crew said they were practicing for their trip to the
> moon. The old man got really excited and asked if he could send a
> message to the moon with the astronauts. Recognizing a promotional
> opportunity for the spin-doctors, the NASA folks found a tape
> recorder. After the old man recorded his message, they asked the son
> to translate. He refused.
>
> So the NASA reps brought the tape to the reservation, where the rest
> of the tribe listened and laughed, but refused to translate the
> elder's message to the moon. Finally, NASA called in an official
> government translator. He reported that the moon message said, "Watch
> out for these guys; they've come to steal your land."
This old joke popped up on the UFOtruth list a couple days ago - my
response there was censored for not meeting list guidelines, although
just HOW my response was inappropriate, they wouldn't say.
I noted that the Athabaskan people who became the Navajo and Apaches
arrived in the Four Corners area just before the Spanish did, and are
thus just as much outsiders as any Europeans. The Navajo have been
encroaching on the civilized settlements of the Hopi, Zuni and other
Pueblo peoples since they arrived; so, the statement attributed to the
Navajo elder ["Watch out for these guys; they've come to steal your
land"] could just as well have been said by a Hopi about the Navajo.
Maybe pointing out historical truths is inappropriate at UFOtruth, eh?
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