[Aztlan] hawaii contact

[martha noyes]

Aloha

Kala mai for returning to this subject, but I read through the archived Polynesia posts and didn't see this kind of material there.

There are Hawaiian and Native American stories, all but a few (two that I know of have been published) still only passed along orally, that tell of preColumbian contacts between the Islands and Meso- and North America.  There is a story regarding contact with the Makah, two regarding Chumash, one regarding Huron/Ojibway, several regarding Hopi and Pueblo.

There is also some linguistic evidence, not including the Chumash tomol article mentioned in the earlier posts.  One is Dr. David Kelly's chapter in Circumpacifica about similarities between Uto-Aztecan and Proto-Polynesian words, god names, and gods.  

Some Chumash words I'm told by my Chumash associates are particularly like Polynesian.  The Channel Islands' Chumash names, for one, like Limu (seaweed in Hawaiian), Huima/Wimat, which if it were Hawaiian might mean a group of eyes (eyes stand for people), and Kukan, which if it were Hawaiian could mean Ku Kane, a god, or Ku Kana, another god, or Ku kanaka (upright/standing men/people).  My Chumash friends also tell me the first ruler of the united government of the Chumash islanders was a queen called Lahui, a word which in Hawaiian means nation, and they also say that one point of Chumash departure for the journey to Hawaii was Pt. Mugu, or in Chumash Muwu, which in Hawaiian has a number of interpretations one of which could suggest that the Chumash may have been associated with the people called Mu or Hu and believed by Hawaiians to have been the first people of the islands, which might add some light to the Chumash's understanding that they are the older brothers of Hawaiians.

I hope I haven't tread where I should not.

Mahalo
Martha