NAVIGATORS--EXTROIDINAIRE
IN STRIEBY'S children's book, Mayor Molly McMole Follows the Sun," she adds some history about how the Polynesians discovered Hawaii. These sailors surpassed the Europeans in their navigation expertise with their double and triple hulled canoes. One of the older polynesians who knew the stars was the naviagor. They had paddles and sails and even discovered Easter island and the West Coast of America. The Chumash Indians are Polynesian and the Polynesians discovered America long before Columbus--perhaps 3000 years before. Did you learn this in school? Probably not.
Signal Hill in Long Beach was a way of the Chumash to communicate with the off-shore islands.
