# A message from the Navajo Chief **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [January 15, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350 "2003-01-15T22:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reverendflash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@reverendflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/reverendflash)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/1 "2003-01-15T22:47:52Z")
Subject: NAVAJO MESSAGE TO THE MOON Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:20:09 -0700 When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?” One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon. Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, “Why certainly!” and told an underling to get a tape recorder. The Navajo elder’s comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he refused to translate. So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder’s message to the moon. Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message: “Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land.” just sent from my father… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/2 "2003-01-15T22:49:22Z")
That is awesome. 🙂 where did you get it from?..original link? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/3 "2003-01-15T23:11:57Z")
haha, thanks for the laugh, rev. I was in dire need of an uplifting… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/4 "2003-01-15T23:33:15Z")
LOL! that teaches us i guess! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/5 "2003-01-15T23:35:36Z")
My navel fell out when I read this… :sure: Jubba: Just in an email from my Pop… Have no idea where he got it from… 😛 It has special meaning to those of us who have Native American blood… You’re right Phil… it’s so true… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/6 "2003-01-15T23:38:13Z")
Well, I don’t have Native American blood, but Native American history is what I plan on studying as my career, so this story definately made me laugh 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/7 "2003-01-15T23:45:54Z")
I only have 1/16… I was being a smart alec… 😊 [SIZE=1]::looks around to see if lost is smiling::[/SIZE] Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/8 "2003-01-15T23:55:01Z")
Rev: I know you were being ‘smart’ lol Even if the story is not true, the message is. A lot of very shady things happened to the native americans for many years. I’m unsure where my interest of the native americans’ history comes from. Seeing as I am 40% German 40% Irish and 20% Sicilian…The oddities that are my life… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/9 "2003-01-16T00:01:57Z")
My Gr Grandmother was of German Heritage (roughly), and a school teacher, who married a Native American (who to his death denied he was “Indian”), and that made my father’s mother the first “White Person” born on the reservation right around 1900 or so… I am an American Mutt… through and through… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/10 "2003-01-16T21:51:32Z")
That is one hell pf a joke. If you told that where I lived you would wind up in court. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/11 "2003-01-16T21:59:58Z")
That is why I live where I do… =) Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/12 "2003-01-16T23:15:54Z")
roflmao… sintax where you live man? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/13 "2003-01-17T15:32:55Z")
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The population here is more then 50% Aboriginal. We have to say Aboriginal because terms like Indian and Native are not PC. It can get you in a lot of trouble around here if you use the wrong words. There is a very large double standerd where I live. I walk down the street and can be called “whitie” and “cracker” and just have to take it. If I was to say anything back I could be charged with Racial Intimidation. There is a lot of Racism towards white ppl in the city i live in The department of Government I work for is GRAA ( Government Relations and Aboriginal Affairs). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-message-from-the-navajo-chief/11350/14 "2003-01-17T16:39:46Z")
you know whats worse than discrimination? Reverse discrimination… Thats sad that it has some to that, sintax, but think about turning the other cheek, and offering a kind reply to your transgressers, and show them that not all white people are evil land-snatching demons… …smile to them when they call you whitey, and say, ‘i prefer the term pigmentally-challenged.’ 😛