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I'll step off the lemon a plan

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Columbia Columbia this is Houston AOS

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door they're setting up the flag now I

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get here but the only person around that

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when I was growing up long ago I was

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about a teenager at a time when the

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we told and half that it is not

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appropriate place to visit and my riff

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my reaction was how will the elders

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respond

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I'm not there I'm not there go for great

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mountains hundreds of miles apart mark

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the external boundary of our homeland

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these were placed on Mother Earth by the

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holy people who made them repositories

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of the herbs plants stones and soil that

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go into the medicine bundles still used

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to heal our people and to restore our

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lives to harmony sister Jeanne to the

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east near Alamosa Colorado is the white

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shell Mountain that is represented by

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the corn plant springtime and birth the

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bear is the guardian of sister Jean the

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second mountain of the south is

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turquoise mountain represented by the

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bean plant and the mountain lion it

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represents a summer in youth the name of

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the mountain is sortsa the third

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mountain is the coast lead near

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Flagstaff Arizona an abalone shell

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mountain this mountain is represented by

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the squash plant the fall season and

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adulthood the wolf and bull snake are

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the last mountain to the north is to

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bend near Durango Colorado and has the

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porcupine as it's gone the sacred

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mountain tobacco was the plant and the

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jet is the gem of the north it

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represents old age air gloria Begay she

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and she twittered eat me Angela touching

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the a versus Jean Liz's Lana a tha Otto

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toois addition Ella and this makes me a

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Navajo woman in regards to the coming of

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the astronauts into Navajo country to do

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their space science studies and then

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even also visits to the moon as I

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reflect on my youth and watching

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television in a classroom about the

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astronauts you know landing on the moon

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I was very taken back about what are

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these guys doing out there in space

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however you know knowing the sacredness

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of the moon and all of the solar system

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and everything for Navajo people we also

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said you know wait a minute here we need

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to step back and look at are they

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protecting our rights is Navajo citizens

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with all this knowledge and hopefully

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they're going to use whatever they're

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doing in a very safe and protective way

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for all of humanity negative the the

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training of the astronauts you know for

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space missions is very important I think

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for the purpose of teaching our children

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it's the exploration of the universe in

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a way is the exploration of us to our

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stories or as Navajo people since time

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immemorial

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since our emergence we've been relating

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to the Stars the Sun the Moon so when

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the Apollo astronauts came here to the

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southwest to train to travel in space to

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explore the Moon the Stars I think it

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was really appropriate it reminds my

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children my people that science is good

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that knowledge is good which our people

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our elders our medicine people have said

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one of the my first impression that I

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have had is that the growth of the

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scientific technology that it is

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possible and that they will be landing

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on the moon but at the same time that I

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still carry on and believe to the

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traditional first letter the moon is one

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of the sacred places in the universe

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today's NASA program living things on

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the moon my attitude is first of all

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that I have been trying to answer one

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particular questions most of my life

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about this moon program that is why are

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we doing this

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so what are we gaining from we picking

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up things from the moon or is there a

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place where the people will find a place

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to live over there or now that we are

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teaching our children the biggest

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question unspoken question people think

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about and talk about is why are we doing

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it if this Y could be simplified and

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explained to us and traditionalists then

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we most likely will change our attitude

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so why are we so interested in studying

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the moon at the universe around us there

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are many reasons but among those reasons

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is the desire to have a better

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understanding of our origins

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we have good evidence now that the earth

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and the moon formed together in the

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early days of the solar system in a

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giant collision here on the earth we

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have what we call plate tectonics

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continental drift and so it's impossible

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to find rocks from the earliest days

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still here on the surface of the earth

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and so the moon has rocks that are far

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far older than we can find here on the

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earth

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these can tell us stories of these very

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early days and so interesting

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if you want to learn about the earliest

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days appear on earth one of the best

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places to look is the moon but that's

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just part of the story we now understand

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how closely how tightly bound we are to

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the rest of the universe the calcium

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atoms in our bones the iron and our

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blood the carbon atoms in this walls of

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ourselves all of these atoms were formed

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in stars

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blew themselves up and sent that

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material out into space where it swirled

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around for a long time and then finally

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condensed into what became our solar

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system and us we are all made of

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Stardust and so if we want to really

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understand who we are and how we came to

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be we need to look at the broader

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the whole concept of the universe is

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wonderful for the students to learn

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because they gain a really wonderful

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appreciation of their place in the

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universe and then feeling so much better

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about hey you know what this universe

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belongs to all of us and that you know I

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can contribute I can learn from all of

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this wonderful information from the

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Navajo perspective because you know it's

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so deep rooted in understanding

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the way to pursue knowledge about the

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Stars the moon the Sun and the heavenly

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bodies we already have our stories which

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are very secret and we used it in

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everyday life

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since our emergence there is the body of

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knowledge given to us by our brothers

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and sisters not native the two are

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actually one

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ask questions in the classroom and go as

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far as you can in the study of what

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they've uncovered what they've

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researched but at the same time come

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back to talk with our elders our

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medicine people and ask what is what

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about this about the moon about the Sun

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about the stars and the heavenly bodies

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that way we have a knowledge of both

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worlds and given that approach and you