Polynesians in South America Centuries Before Columbus
The Polynesians are the indigenous people from Polynesia, which is basically the triangular shaped territory of Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island, although there are some island outside that area. The most prominent Polynesian languages, according to the number of speakers, are Samonan, Tongan, Tahitian, Maori, and Hawaiian, There is credible evidence that Polynesians had contact with South America before Columbus, and this makes it one of the strongest cases of pre-Columbian transoceanic contact accepted by mainstream scholars.
