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Who is AmericaA study of Identity

Kanook 2007

What began as a casual search across the Internet, has slowly morphed into a

database that is not only comprehensive, but full of controversy and enough

further researched needed to choke a T-Rex. Traditionally some of us (which is

most of us) really dont give a hoot about our ancestors, too busy trying to decipher

the everyday news and events taking place just beyond our fingertips as we read

the news daily from around the world, accessible through this technology we have

labeled the World Wide Web. Albeit a wonderful tool we are learning that it is no

different than any other source we have used over the years, in that any search will

reveal many different opinions, some detailed and others vague and misleading

the only difference being they are instantly accessible and being in print we tend toaccept some of the falsehoods, and if they are technically beyond our everyday

knowledge, we ignore. As the news media has learned years ago, as a race we

accept the flash (shock and awe) more than we do the facts. Even the authors (and

public relation groups) of long-ago realized that to grab the imagination (attention)

of the masses one needed to spin the tale further and further up into the world of,

did you see that!, and as time weaves its way through our daily lives this simple

fact remains.

In my research I found the traditional accepted theory on the populating of the

North and South American land mass, the one where our ancestors followed the

game across the steppes of Siberia to a new hunting ground around 11,500 years

ago. I have always had a difficult time with this reasoning, one reason being the

world as we learned was not heavily populated at the time (and I think game

outnumbered the hunters), and as for the climate was changing, the region from

what they were leaving (if the world hadnt tilted on its axis) to travel to was not

much different than where they left. And as for them moving just because suddenly

a land bridge existed in a place where water used to be, that too is a thin argument.

But nevertheless this theory is the strongest one today, although late coming

information is demonstrating that maybe some of our ancestors floated on a log or

two and made the journey from Asia to here or from Africa to South America.

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The map below shows the land bridge supposedly at the peak of the last ice age

around 18,000 years-ago; where the sea level is

estimated to have been lower than 100 meters (328) of

its present day level. Holding true to the single source

theory, from Out of Africa, it can be said that is true that

Native Americans made some type of crossing from Asia,

where exactly in Asia has now become a controversial

subject. Some research suggests there were up to four-

separate migrations, while yet some research holds with

the single migration theory.

From the map on the right (North

America Center) youll notice

that there are 3 routes defined, the

bottom one is the coastal route,

center on is over the land bridge

and Im assuming the other the

same.

One of the major hurdles that all

researches are coming up against

is the fairly new data that is surfacing concerning the timing of all these migrations.

Archeology sites during the past 20 years (or less) have produced findings that pre-

date the Clovis site by at least 10,000 years (if not more). Scholars from far and

wide are shifting through artifacts and DNA samples, some new and some ancient in

their combined effort to establish a certain date of the peopling of America.

The old theory that our ancestors traveled from Siberia to Alaska and followed

an ice-free corridor between the two large Canadian ice sheets, the Laurentide

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_ice_sheet) and the Cordilleran

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordilleran_ice_sheet) ice sheets to reach ice-free lands

to south is not in jeopardy but is now accompanied by others not so accepted

theories.

Very convincing evidence has surfaced (no pun indented) of human habitation

that date earlier than the Clovis culture [11,200 years ago] in South America.

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Monte Verde (http://www.unl.edu/rhames/monte_verde/MonteVerde.htm), a much

studied site located near southern Chile, which dates over 12,500 years ago, where

dwellings, stone tools, and preserved medicinal and edible plants were found. This

find, alone, brings into question, how did the people manage to settle this far south

(if we follow the traditional thru the ice theory) as such an early date? One of the

many reasons that a coastal migration route is now gaining some acceptance,

rather than the walking across the land bridge and ending up in South American

1,300 years before you left Siberia. This emerging evidence suggests that people

with boats moved along the Pacific coast at least 12,500 years ago (and maybe

earlier), where other archaeological finds in Australia, Melanesia, and Japan indicate

the use of boats as far back as 25,000 to 40,000 years ago. Because of the low-

level of the Pacific (on average 328 less than today) they settled in some sites that

are well below the present day shoreline, and yet searchers have found several

sites in Canada, California, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile that date between 10,000 and

12,000 years ago.

Clovis culture has not taken a back-seat through all of this, whereas comparisons

have been made to their culture and similar finds in the eastern portion of the

United States (Cactus Hill, Virginia) in the same time period that compare to the

Clovis people. Scientists find no technological affinities in relating Clovis to Asian

Paleolithic cultures. However, it is found that Europe may have some links to the

Clovis, where it is found this culture is similar to the Solutrean culture(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean) which surfaced in the Macon district of

eastern France, dated about 19,000 years BCE. The Solutrean culture takes its

name from the village of Solutre in southwest France, where in addition to

locations in Spain and Portugal lithic techniques were found in abundance that

compared to the Clovis connection in New Mexico.

Ancient skeletal remains show a range of physical attributes suggesting

separate migrations of different populations of modern humans from Asia. Of the

old remains found as a group their skulls differ markedly, from the broad faces,

prominent cheekbones, and round cranial features that characterize the modern-

day Native Americans. Two come to mind that have long and narrow cranial vaults

with short and relatively gracile faces, the Spirit Cave Man from Nevada and the

recently discovered Kennewick Man found in Washington State. Both these finds

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created a stir amongst the Native populations that lead to many (of the Natives)

protesting the examination of the skulls once again falling back on the old saw of

disturbing the graves of their elders. My opinion, they were afraid that someone

else might take the forefront on the migration list of people to the New World, and

to these narrow minded people this was not acceptable.

Kennewick Man skull found along the banks of the Columbia

River at Kennewick, WA on July 28th, 1996 by two young men,

quickly became a 9,200 year old skull that ignited an

abundance of controversy both in the anthological and Native

world. The U.S. Corp of Engineers has taken possession of the

skeleton, only after publishing their intent to repatriate the

remains to an alliance of five tribes, Umatilla, Yakima, Nez

Perce, Wanapum and the Colville suits were filed as far away as a traditional

European religious group of the Asutru Folk Assembly demanding their right to

determine if this individual was their ancestor. The Umatilla, who have taken lead

on the issue, intend immediate reburial in a secret location. As of December 7th,

2006 his remains had been examined for any exposure damage in their storage

place at the Burke Museum in Seattle, they want to reassure everyone that the

bones are still in good shape.

Spirit Cave Man was unearthed on August 11th, 1940 by

Georgia and S.M. Wheeler in a cave located on a bluff

in the Carson Sink area, near where the Pleistocene

Lake Lahontan used to be. In this west facing cave,

that was no more than 5 high, 25 wide and barely 15

deep they began their search. Under about 1 of

material they found a large mat, very finely twined,

with a warp of split tules and the weft of native hemp

cord --- as they unwrapped this mat they found a few human bones, all that

remained of some earlier Nevadan. They had found some proof of earlier

occupation of the area. The second mat they located was to reveal an almost

perfect wrapping that contained an individual who was partially mummified (some

hair and scalp remained,) with its leather moccasins, rabbit-skin blankets, and the

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Harrington, curator of the Southwest Museum placed the age of their find between

1,500 to 2,000 years old.

The discovery being made in 1940, they had no choice but to accept the date

supplied by the expert as radiocarbon dating was still more than a decade away.

Their find was placed in a wooden box,

cataloged and stored in the security of

the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.

The time had come for testing when R.

Ervin Taylor of the USC Riverside

Laboratory was in search of any

mummies that had hair he could test he

obtained hairs from burial #2, taking a

small sample of the bone to date in

comparison with the date of the hair, he found dates that put the mummy in the

Holocene era --- more than 9,000 years ago a mistake? They then tested the mats

and received the same results. These tests had confirmed the original feelings the

Wheelers had had when they discovered the remains --- they were old!

It is a shame that these two ancient Americans along with the Wizards Beach

Man are surrounded in controversy with their supposed descendants, in the name

of scared souls being denied their rightful place in the ground with observation and

testing by the scientific world and the public, denied. I dont buy their reasoning and

suppose as long as I live I never will, no matter their arguments and their liberal use

of the Native American Graves protection act in their quest for headlines.

Physical anthropologists see a great similarity in these specimens linking them

to certain Old World populations, European and even the Ainu of Japan --- I hesitate

to relate that some link them to early Polynesia, but we will explore that a little later

on.

Ongoing studies of the Native languages in the Americas have shown them to

be extremely diverse, in fact representing over four-hundred and fifty (450)

distinct families, with some having a single isolated language. Research is

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required tens of millennia1 to develop. This fact has tickled the brains of many of

people over the years, in that how can a race of similar people have so many

languages over such a short period of time, after all the French and the BIA were

not present to prohibit the use of a person Native language. Yet, mainstream

scholars are insisting that all the languages descend from only three or less

separate linguistic lines, in a time period of less than a dozen millennia --- extremely

unlikely, and bordering on the insane. Unlocking the linguistic history of the New

World poses a highly complex set of problems that will be under investigation for

years, and yet as mentioned there are some that have slammed the door and stick

by their position that Native America began their language diversification just for

the heck of it a couple of thousand years ago, that is, individuals with a European

influence.

In one particular language group, the Na Dene, researches have uncovered

evidence that this group which includes Native groups in Alaska, the Nootka of

British Columbia, the Navajo, also includes the Berbers (Morocco), and the Tuaregs

of North Africa. It is also known that the Celts and the Basques language are also

derived from its base. Recent investigation also reveals there is a close relationship

between the Inuit language and that of the Basque of Spain. In the case of the Na

Dene it is now thought that they migrated from Asia independently and

considerable more recently (6,000 to 10,000 years ago) than the traditional

American Indians (Amerinds).

Native Americans have been divided into three linguistic groups as mentioned

above, the well-defined Eskaleut and Na Dene of northern North America and the

heterogeneous (will mixed)Amerindof North, Central and South America.

The mixture of diversity of the Amerinds is believed to be a result of multiple

independent migrations or a single ancient migration with extensive time to

radiate from its original form. An investigation was done recently in order to better

understand the origin and interrelationship of the three groups. Where a number of

individuals had their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) tested;

1. 87 Amerinds (Pima, Maya, and Ticuna of North, Central and South America)

2. 80 Na Dene (Dogrib Canada/NW Territories, Tlingit and Navajo)

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3. 153 Asians (7 diverse populations)

American Indian (mtDNAs) were found to be directly descended from five (5)

founding Asian mtDNAs whereas they clustered into four (4) lineages, each

characterized by a different rare Asian mtDNA marker.

Lineage A is defined by a (HaeIII) site gain at (np-663)

Lineage B where the lineage is defined by a 9-bp deletion between COII and

tRNA-Lys genes

Lineage C defined by a HincII site loss at np-13259,

Lineage D defined by an AluI site loss at np-5176

The North, Central and South American Amerinds were found to have all fourlineages (A,B.C,D), which demonstrates that they all originated from a common

ancestral genetic source. Now if you understand all the above, youre a much

better informed individual than I, I just copied it from an on-line report.

The Na Dene mtDNAs were predominately from lineage A, with 27% of them

having a Na Dene specific Rsal site loss at np-16329, where the accumulated Na

Dene variation was only 0.021%. (They only deviated by less than .21% across the

board).

These results demonstrate that the Amerinds mtDNAs arose from one or

maybe two Asian migrations that were really distinct from the migration of the Na

Dene, in that the Amerind populations are about four (4) times older than the Na

Dene.

But examination of ancient and contemporary Native American mtDNA

suggests a single wave of migration into the New World, whereas some scholars

suggest there were two waves of migration, the Na Dene and Amerind. The findingthat all four lineages are present in North, Central, and South America suggesting

that all four lineages arrived together. Examination of ancient Native American DNA

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The question still remains when?

And then there was the find in Southeast Alaska on Prince of Wales Island, a set

of ancient bones that have produced some of the greatest evidence up-to-date that

people who originated in Asia could have sailed or paddled to North America, then

migrated south down the coast.

A human jawbone and other fragments were found in On your Knees Cave in

1996. The cave, located on the northern tip of the island near Summer Strait was

discovered during a logging unit survey in 1993 and then mapped by the members

of the Tongass Cave Project. It is about 1 km (3,280) from the shoreline and about

125 meters (410) above sea level, and it is located along a ledge on the south-

facing side of a deep valley.

In 1994 it was visited by Dr. Tim Heaton and Kevin Allred to investigate severalbones exposed in the sediment found in the cave. They revealed samples of brown

bear, black bear, otter, and fish --- although these bones were few they were

sufficient to date. The first bones dated were from a brown bear and found to be

35,365 radiocarbon years old, while the second bone from a black bear was found

to be 41,600 years old.

In 1996 Dr. Heaton and Fred Grady practicing excavation methods, found on July

4th found the lower jaws, pelvis, and a bone tool of a human. Dates of 9,730 and

9,880 years BP were obtained on the human remains, making them the oldest

found in Alaska or Canada --- the associated bone tool was dated to 10,300 years

old.

Over a period of five-years 5,985 gallon-size bags full of sediment were

excavated and washed, resulting in over 32,000 fossils that have been individually

cataloged and identified. Species recovered include brown and black bear, caribou,

Stella sea lion, ringed and harbor seal, artic and red fox, hoary marmot, brown

lemming, heather vole, and a variety of sea birds such as auks, puffins, and diving

ducks.

Unlike the Native groups in the lower-48, the Natives of Alaska welcomed and

signed off on the excavation and the testing of items that were found, including the

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The DNA results were nothing if but exciting, extracted from a single tooth they

showed matches (to other data bases) that included people from California to

Mexico, Ecuador and Chile. He even matched the DNA to DNA recorded as being

from Illinois showing at least some of the humans ancestors traveled overland. It is

still unclear where exactly the cavemans ancestors originated, but the DNA

sequence is generally found in Asia, with only an exact match with a member of the

Han ethnic group in eastern China. Only access to detailed analysis of genetic

material from across Asia will allow researchers to pin down the Alaskan cavemans

roots.

In our recent history (1968) a series of test were conducted on Chinese boys (30

each) and girls (30 each) age 12-years-old, whereas a series of cranial films were

taken, the same was done on 36 males and 34 females of 18 years of age, on the

island of Taiwan. The results revealed the following:

1. Chinese in Taiwan were similar to Japanese, and Central and South American

Indians. They all possessed a shorter frontal cranial base and depth of face,

and were completely different from North American Caucasians.

2. Chinese in Taiwan were similar to Japanese, but were different from Central

and South American Indians, in having a flatter infraorbital outline, longer

facial height, flatten mandibular plane angle and a more frontal position of

chine.

3. Chinese in Taiwan were characteristically different from Japanese by having

a small interincisal angle, lower frontal facial height, mandibular angle and

mandibular plane angel.

In summary, the results indicated that the Chinese in Taiwan are characterized

by having a wide but short pattern, a retro-position of mandible ramus, and more

upright mandible angle and a prominent labial inclination of anterior tooth axis. In

short, they dont represent any North American race. So it appears the Na Dene

Indian doesnt have any close relatives in Taiwan from the recent past, in fact other

studies have indicated that the Na Dene linguistic group migrated from Siberia in a

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might have come from the far eastern steppes of Siberia. Confusing at best, isnt

it?

Well we know (from published research) that the human remains found on Prince

of Wales Island had relatives in Illinois, California, Mexico and Chile but are we sure

of their place in Alaska?

At present (with so many tests and research being conducted) it seems that

mtDNA is not going to solve all or any of the migration patterns that have surfaced

with the research, only in some cases producing additional questions. It appears

that just the surface has been scratched in how far we have come in our search for

our past and our migration across the globe. The questions today far outnumber

the questions we thought we would answer with our research, but isnt that the way

with all science?

Granted we have come along way since Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves

Coppens and Tim White made their infamous discovery in Ethiopia 32 years ago

when they found Lucy. In theory (mostly) the Americas were first occupied

beginning 12,000 years ago although late data suggest strongly that this is wrong,

not in its entirety grant you, but in part it only covers one or two migrations.

How do mainstream scholars discount the discoveries in South America that pre-

date the Clovis find by at least 20,000 years? They hang tight on their convictions

that man only made his way across the land bridge a couple of days ago. Today

these scholars numbers are slowly decreasing as more and more evidence is

coming to light that is demonstrating that man may have occupied the Americas

(based on research in 2001) as far back as 55,000 years ago --- this based on digs

at the Gainey site in Michigan that man was residing in the New World before

the Last Glacier Maximum. The 39,000-year old date proposed for this site falls well

within the prevailing opinion with many archaeologists with the dates established

for the sites in South America and the dates for the sites located at Lewisville, Texas

(26,619 +/- 300 years) and the site at Meadowcroft Rockshelterwhich is now in the

process of having its date changed to 45,000-years BP. Little different than the

11,200 year date set in concrete for the Clovis culture.

I refer to the Ice Age(s) as a dictating moment in the

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the ice had left ---- after all this has been the prevailing opinion. In my surfing the

net I found that the last Ice Ages were not the first time earth has been subjected to

massive amounts of Ice. I was really taken back to find out that earth at one time

was completely covered with ice for a period of over 10 million years, surprised? I

was, read about this at:

http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/8_29_98/bob1.htm

Speaking about Ice, the last Ice Age peaked about 18,000 years ago where we

find the Tlingit [my nation] homeland under ice many feet thick and the seas lower

by about 100 meters, with a time of over 6,000 years to reach its present status,

allowing life as we know it to exist. This ice dictated the populating of the coast of

Southeast Alaska and the rest of the Pacific Northwest, but this is not to say there

were already people living on the North American continent. Some having made

the crossing from Asia as long ago as 55,000 years (as recent research suggests),which fits in with some of the Hopi myths and legends whereas their tribe split and

different clans populated the known earth. I have heard, or read that one particular

clan (the Bear) headed north to follow the melting ice to establish a new homeland.

Are not these the people who migrated through the ice to populate portions of the

coastline of North America ---- this proposition in not so far off base, nor is the one

that speaks to Tlingit and Haida ancestors arriving from across the sea.

The investigation of world wide genetics has come a long way in the last 40

years, since the discovery of DNA in 1959 by Watson and Crick, where the study of

the sequencing of genes helps determine our origin and shows how each and every

one of us is unique. Ongoing research has revealed some surprising insights into

the migration of man around the planet, leading to the theory that Ocean Currents

just might have played a role in this distribution. One example is the finding of

10,000 year old African genes amongst the people of the Lower Amazon, suggesting

that Africans used the southern Equatorial current to cross the Atlantic, or how

about the 6,000 year old Taiwanese genes found at the opposite end of the

Kuroshio (Japanese) Current in Canada and along the west coast of America?

I remember years ago when the National Geographic had an issue that dealt

with the quest of Thor Heyerdahl to find how and why the people of Polynesia came

to be. At the time I only really admired the pictures and did not pay too much

attention to the article a typical reaction from a man when he thinks he is going to

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live forever. He won an Academy Award in 1951 for the documentation filmed on

his famous trip from Peru to the South Pacific. It is available on DVD Kon Tiki.

I now read that on April 28th, 2006 his grandson, Olav Heyerdahl is following in

his footsteps to reaffirm his grandfathers theories and the results of his many years

of study related to the ocean currents of the world.

Contrary to the belief that all significant migrations of man only occurred on

land, Thor believed that man utilized favorable ocean currents and prevailing winds

many times in the past, either for trade or when unfavorable events such as war

and natural catastrophes forced people to leave their homeland. His research has

shown that slow moving sailing rafts would foster marine growth, in a sense

creating their own ecosystem where fish would shelter in the shadows of the craft,

birds would stop to rest in the rigging and would often find tasty morsels hiding

amongst the weed growth along the waterline. He maintained that this wide range

of wildlife provided the traveler with a veritable larder of food during a relaxing sail

with the wind and current. His (at the time) weird and outlandish theorys never

really did sit well in mainstream academia, but now that genetics is becoming a

useful and accurate tool, his idea of the ocean currents (rivers of the ocean) as

having a role in the distribution of man are proving they are actually correct.

He first became interested in Pacific pre-history while he was on an entomology

expedition which he had combined with his honeymoon on Fatu Hiva (a small island

in the Marques group in French Polynesia) with his first wife Liv in 1937. Many

things captured his active imagination, for instance drawings of cats (which are

not natural to this part of the world) and the large Marquesan stone statues

scattered about the islands. He had many conversations with a local elder who

related to him that his race had come from, Te Fiti [the east] nodding toward that

part of the horizon where the sun rose, no other land is between this island and

South America. The elder (Tei-Tetua) went on to explain that their ancestors led by

Con Tiki arrived via boat from a very hot dry land in the east. Later Thor was able

to find in Peru the confirmation of the legend ofCon Tike Viracocha, a Peruvian

mariner who voyaged into the Pacific.

This legend ran against all thinking in its day, whereas common scientific belief

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hopping from Southeast Asia. Thor, at the age of 23, began a livelong quest for the

truth about the Polynesians, which included a book he published in 1952 American

Indians in the Pacific, where he came to the conclusion that Polynesians not only

entered the Pacific from Peru, but also sailed via favorable currents and winds from

Canada to Hawaii.

Bu now youre probably nodding off (if you are reading this looking at the

screen) wondering what all this has to do with the populating of the Americas? I

am attempting to demonstrate the use of the oceans as a way of migration and to

drag common everyday thinking away from walking (remember the European found

that Native Americans had no wheel) miles and miles, develop over 450 different

languages, and diverse cultural methodology in just 12,000 years. Whether or not I

succeed will depend on your ability to stay awake and my ability to maintain

enough of your interest to absorb the material. So in lieu of technical mumble-jumbo how about a little humor, The irony of life is that, by the time you're old

enough to know your way

around, you're not going anywhere. Just a little!

For those of you who have very little knowledge of the ocean currents (and why

should you, you like most of us are stuck in mainstream America worried about the

next increase in the price of gasoline) the figure below shows the current flow

between South America and the islands in the South Pacific.



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Thor Heyerdahls interest was peaked upon hearing those stories from the Fata

Hiva elder along with the preserved mummies, painting and legends, and most of

all that some of the local inhabitants appeared as red-haired North American

Caucasians.

Legends in Peru speak to the old Inca legend of a sun-god name Con-Tiki

Viracocha who was the supreme leader of a race of mythical fair-skinned people.

Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary white men who left

enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca (Peru high-altitude lake). Local

tradition talks about a war that broke out between his people and the people of

Chief Cari, from the Coquimbo Valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquimbo) with the

last great battle taking place on an island in the middle of the lake, whereas the fair

race was massacred, all that is except Kon-Tiki and his closet companions who fled

to the coast and sailing off into the sunset.

When the Spaniards (ever pleasant and god fearing) came to Peru the Incas told

them that the colossal monuments were erected by a race of white gods who had

lived there before the Inca became rulers of the land. They described these white

gods as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the

morning of time, teaching them manner and customs something the Spaniards

were never to show the people of Peru.

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It is known that when the first Europeans discovered the Pacific islands they

were surprised to fine entire families that had pale skin, hair varying in color from

reddish to blonde, and almost Semitic with their hook-nose faces. In contrast, most

of the Polynesians had golden-brown skin, raven-black hair and rather flat noses.

When Jakob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island he supposedly asked of the many

natives that were light-skinned? It is said that these people can count their

ancestors right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua, when they first came

sailing across the sea from a mountainous land in the east that was scorched by the

sun!

Although Heyerdahls expeditions were spectacular with heroic journeys in flimsy

boats catching the publics imagination, his diffusionist theories were considered

eccentric and old-fashioned by some archaeologists. He has been accused of

having an imperialist mentality even though he demonstrated that long distanceocean voyages were possible even with ancient designs --- his handle became one

who practiced experimental archaeology. He wrote at the end of his book about

Fata Hiva:

There is nothing for modern man to return to. Our wonderful time in thewilderness had given us a taste of what man had abandoned and what mankindwas still trying to get even further away from. Progress today can be defined asman's ability to complicate simplicity. Nothing in all the procedure that modernman, helped by all his modern middlemen, goes through before he earns money to

buy a fish or a potato will ever be as simple as pulling it out of the water or soil.Without the farmer and the fisherman, modern society would collapse, with all itsshops and pipes and wires. The farmers and the fishermen represent the nobility ofmodern society; they share their crumbs with the rest of us, who run about with

papers and screwdrivers attempting to build a better worldwithout a blueprint.

Now the plot thickens. In search of Polynesian origins, scholars have studied the

female (mtDNA 9 bp deletion and associated Polynesian sequence motifs) and have

established a Taiwanese origin for the female Polynesian DNA. Leading them to

conclude that the reduced genetic diversity in Polynesians confirmed that they

left Asia a scant 6,000 years ago. Now that presents a bit of a problem --- wherewere they for a period of 3,800 years, if not in Polynesia, they have been proven to

officially enter the Pacific island groups around 2,200 years ago. As proven,

previously genetic evidence made it impossible for the Polynesians to have lived

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Susan Serjeantson2, a geneticist, seems to have found the answer. In her

studies she found a strong link between the New Zealand Maori and the

Southeastern Alaska Tlingit (imagine that!). She observed the rare antigen HLA

Bw48 in the Tlingit, Haida, and the Kwakuitl or people who inhabited Prince of Wales

Island, Queen Charlotte Island and Vancouver Island.

HLA Bw48 was also known to be a key marker, unique to the Polynesians

and that in the Polynesians Bw48 was always associated with A11, a Caucasian

gene (this was found to be absent in western American regions) this indicated that

this change came after they left the Pacific Northwest (not in the reverse).

All this scientific mumbo-jumbo aside, legends, common cultural traits and

numerous artifact similarities confirm a connection between the Tlingit, Haida and

the Hawaiians.

There is a Tlingit legend that refers to the long ocean voyage from Taiwan,

creating the possibility that the 7km [4.35 miles] per hour Kuroshio Current

(Japanese Current) played a major part in the migration. The story goes:

There were some strange people who arrived from the Western Ocean and

among them were two sisters. They landed on Dall Island (SE Alaska), where they

met and married men whose people were coming down the rivers from the interior

of North America. One sister went with her family to Haida-gwan or the Queen

Charlotte Islands, where her children grew and multiplied into the Haida Nation.

The other sister went with her family to Prince of Wales Island and became the

ancestress (mother) of the Tlingit Nation3.

It seems that the ancestors of the Hawaiian race did not come from the islands

of the South Pacific, but rather from a northern direction (welau lani) in particular

from the land of Kalonakikeke (Alaska). According to legendary stories a great

flood occurred during the reign of Kahiko-Luamea on the continent of Ka-Houpo-o-Kane (Taiwan) and carried away a floating log of wood named Konikonihia, a

log that carried a precious human cargo, which in time came to rest in the land of

Kalonakikeke.

2http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002744b.htm3http://www.sheldonmuseum.org/tlingithistory.htm

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North Pacific Currents

On this log were the first man and woman who came to Kalonakikeke from the

continent of Ka-Houpo-o-Kane. Mr Alaska (Kalonakiko-ke) and his wife, Woman of

my dreams, (Hoomoe-a-pule). They were said to both be high chiefs (persons of

high caste) of the countries of Kanaka-Hikina (person of the east) and Kanaka-

Komohana (person of the west) and both were descended from the great-great

ancestor Huka-ohialaka.

Many generations later, Chief Nuu, his wife, his three sons and their wives

traveled in a canoe called Ka-Waa-Halau-Alii-O-Ka-Moku (the royal canoe of the

continent), where it finally rested upon Mauna Kea (the white mountain), on theisland of Hawaii. They were the first Hawaiians.

In the Kumuhonua Genealogy4 of Kauai and Oahu, Chief Nuu is mentioned,

including his wife Lilinoe. Nuu would have been born between 225 and 75 BC, a

Solomon Peleioholani was a descendant of Chief Nuu through the Kings of Kauai,

and the arrival of Chief Nuu between 2225 and 2075 years ago agrees fairly well

with the genetic information that the Polynesians underwent a rapid population

expansion, from a small founder population about 2,200 years ago --- this when the

Eastern Polynesians entered the Pacific.Adding a little reality to the above, the following cultural and artifact similarities

were noted by Thor Heyerdahl in his book, American Indians in the Pacific,

which was published in 1952, between the Natives of the Northwest and the

Polynesians.

4http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hm/hm23.htm

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1. Formal principles of rank, lineage, and kinship

2. Use of mats or rugs (blankets) for money

3. Fish hook and harpoon design

4. Canoe design and building techniques, such as hot rocks for steaming hulls

5. Earth oven procedures

6. House design with entrance totems

7. Inlaying of shells into carvings

8. Weaving styles

9. Use of gourds for containers

10.Phallic design of stone pounders along with their spiritual significance

11.Stone bowl manufacture and design

12.Gaping angry mouth motif on the handles of clubs

13.Tattooing tools and techniques

14.Design of the Tiki and its spiritual significance

15. Traditional name for the Haida homeland of Queen Charlotte Island is

HadagwaiI very similar (linguistically) to Hawaiis5

An ancient Hawaiian chant describes the hardship, hunger and cold they

encountered on their voyage across the North Pacific, verifying that their migration

into the Pacific was not directly to Hawaii.

Naturally most all of the anthropologists (at the time-1952) were not in favor of

accepting the idea of any Pacific Northwest islands being linked to anyone from the

South Pacific, much less from Hawaii. Mainly because the Austronesian language

was not spoken in the region, whereas most groups speak the Na Dene language.

Further proof of their affiliation can be attached to their common art, where the

protruding tongue and eyes shape found in Tlingit/Haida and Polynesian carvings

can be traced directly back to Asia. This unique blend of art styles cannot be found

no-where else in the world, and it is not something that can be attributed to

parallel evolution, especially in isolation on some far off middle Pacific Island.

At the end of the day, the similarities between the Tlingit, Kwakuitl, Haida, and

Polynesians are too many to ignore, and simply stuff in a drawer in the back of your

mind, labeled coincidence. Although the evidence is compelling, many scientists

cannot bring themselves to accept that Polynesians separated from Melanesians in

Southeast Asia 11,500 or so years ago, moved north to Taiwan, leaving there 6,000

5 If you look at this site, you will find pictures of the above (http://users.on.net/~mkfenn/page3.htm)

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years ago to ride the Kuroshio current across the North Pacific to the Pacific

Northwest where they spent 3,800 years islands of the West Coast of Alaska and

Canada, and them left for Hawaii 2,200 years ago --- just doesnt sit well, if you

know what I mean.

I am not an anthropologist nor am I a noted historian, only a bored Tlingit/Swede

who on a raining night in Istanbul, Turkey during the cold month of December

happened to stumble across a site on the Internet containing a bit about the

populating of America --- and I was off to nights of surfing the net to learn a bit

more of my history.

It is still not certain where my Native roots really originated (other than Lucy in

the Ethiopian desert), I still know very little -- although I have read and studied their

supposed beginning, from the Hopi Bear, to the migration through the ice corridors

and now from the sea, only more questions have accumulated.

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