Going to the Moon...
May be urban folklore, but it's funny!
About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took
the astronauts to a place near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo
Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. With all the trucks and
large
vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.
Nearby, a Navajo sheep herder and his son watched the strange creatures
walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel. The two Navajo people were
noticed and approached by the NASA personnel. Since the older man did not
know English, his son asked for him what the strange creatures were doing.
The NASA people told them that they were just men who were 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 asked a few more people on the
reservation to translate. 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."