This paper will argue that there are pragmatic reasons to further cooperation between Indigenous peoples and space agencies, exemplified by Navajo-NASA cooperation. These pragmatic reasons rest upon an argument from belonging: space expansion involves a series of multi-generation projects. The significance of our contributions to these project will depend upon the actions of other generations who are unlikely to accept goals which are idiosyncratic, rather than drawing upon some deeper human concern with space. Such concern can be informed through Indigenous inclusion. The paper will remain officially neutral about a broader range of discourses concerning land rights, sovereignty, and attempts to situate dissent as resistance to colonial settler states. It will, however, presuppose a broad sympathy with Indigenous predicaments and group survival. The approach will be pragmatic in the sense that three nonarbitrary constraints/adequacy conditions will have to be met: (i) the overall approach must be geared to policy discussions rather than counterculture; (ii) Indigenous knowledge must be acknowledged as more than ecological, in order to be relevant to the matter at hand; and (iii) the practical role assigned to Indigenous peoples must be significant and distinctive. The overall aim is to explain that there is at least one important practical advantage of extending and deepening Indigenous inclusion.

本文将论证土著人民与太空机构之间进一步合作的务实原因，例如纳瓦霍与美国宇航局的合作。这些务实的理由基于归属感的论点：空间扩展涉及一系列多代项目。我们对这些项目的贡献的重要性将取决于其他几代人的行动，他们不太可能接受特殊的目标，而不是利用人类对空间的更深层次的关注。这种担忧可以通过土著包容来传达。该文件将在更广泛的范围内保持官方中立，这些讨论涉及土地权利、主权，以及试图将异议定位为对殖民定居者国家的抵抗。然而，它将以对土著困境和群体生存的广泛同情为前提。在必须满足三个非任意限制/充分条件的意义上，该方法将是务实的：(i) 总体方法必须适合政策讨论而不是反主流文化；(ii) 必须承认本土知识不仅仅是生态的，以便与手头的事情相关；(iii) 分配给土著人民的实际作用必须是重要和独特的。总体目标是说明扩展和深化原住民包容性至少有一个重要的实际优势。为了与手头的事情相关；(iii) 分配给土著人民的实际作用必须是重要和独特的。总体目标是说明扩展和深化原住民包容性至少有一个重要的实际优势。为了与手头的事情相关；(iii) 分配给土著人民的实际作用必须是重要和独特的。总体目标是说明扩展和深化原住民包容性至少有一个重要的实际优势。