Native South Americans were early inhabitants of Polynesia

[hunter]

6. Humans walk and sail. It's what we do.

We've been walking and sailing for a very long time. That's how we ended up pretty much everywhere on earth, even in places we cannot survive without sophisticated technology -- things like kayaks, string, fermented foods, numerous ways of cooking, etc..

This is why the Columbus "discovery" story many of us learned in school is so vile. Columbus represented a culture exceptional mostly for its cruelty and bloody mindedness.

I grew up in a California community that was 99% white. The history I learned before college was a whitewash. I never really wondered how it came to be that 99% of my classmates were white until I walked away. There is no way in hell I'd ever go back.