Dear Dan: I enjoyed your NASA story and thought it appropriate for the list. It is, after all, a statement as to the mind set of the Indian. Alma -----Original Message----- From: Jerri (Rogers) Chasteen <jerri@cherokee.net> To: Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com <Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 12:46 PM Subject: Re: NASA and Lakota Sioux >PLEASE! No "off-topic" messages, funny or not (NO exceptions)! Send them e-mail >to the people you think would enjoy them. > >If this rule was not enforced, we would look like several of the "genealogy >lists" that are filled with poems and recipes! > >jc >List Owner > > >Dan Metivier wrote: > >> I know all this is way off topic, but I had to through in a >> little humor.... >> >> I found this story on the web. It was originally told by Peterson Zha, >> >> at the time the story occurred, he was President of the Navajo Nation. >> >> The story is retolded by Charles Phillip Whitedog, Ojibway. He is the >> >> Network Manager Multimission Ground Systems Office, Mission Control, >> >> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. >> >> >> >> About 1966 or so, 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. With all the trucks >> >> and large vehicles where two large figures that were dressed in full >> >> Lunar spacesuits. >> >> >> >> Near by a Navajo sheepherder 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 were just men >> >> 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." >> > >> >Dan >> >Ooyalugi >> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(_______)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > >> > >