User talk:Alissalemaster

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Chumash
Good work on Rock art of the Chumash people. Looking forward to more of your additions. Do you know if you’ve ever run into material about Polynesians in your source material? I ask because I’m wondering if there’s enough material to put a separate article together. As you may be aware, there’s some weak evidence that Polynesian voyaging led to contact between the two cultures. In the past, some people have tried to dismiss it, but I was hoping there was enough material to put an article together just about the Polynesian-Chumash contact hypothesis. So far, this material from Tomol is about all we have:


 * Some scholars report that sewn plank technology may have been introduced by early Polynesian navigators sometime late in the first millennium, who had constructed sewn plank boats and had been known to have reached South America. Scholars state that "three native Californian boat terms are argued to be Polynesian loans: Chumashan tomol(o), and Gabrielino tarainxa (or taraina) and ti?at." Some modern Chumash and Tongva/Kizh state that “this is something we have always known happened." This was further explained in a short documentary episode by KCET produced in 2019.

I can envision an article that explores this more in depth, gives some possible navigation routes, explanations of how or why contact might have happened, and goes into a bit more depth. In related news, it looks like the hypothesis is much stronger today than it was just a few years ago. In 2020, researchers conclusively proved through genomic analysis that Polynesians and Native Americans in Colombia did meet up in the distance past, but the route and direction of the migration remains unknown. More here. Viriditas (talk) 22:31, 15 May 2023 (UTC)