Notes:

1. Solid evidence providing a proof that Polynesians made contact with pre-Columbian America:

(a) "Many mata'a have appeared in Mapuche collections, sometimes associated with other Easter Island artifacts (stone polished adzes 'toki' and stone pillows 'ngarua') of suspicious origin, and there are at least three of them found in archaeological sites but they all lack firm provenience. The next reference is the Mapuche word for the old stone polished axes, 'toki,' a word that was widely spread from Southeast Asia as far as the Mapuche area in South America (Imbelloni, 1928). 'Toki' in Chile were functional axes (mainly adzes in Polynesia), the title for the warrior chiefs and their symbols of rank (tokicura, an adze-like stone pendant). There is even a reference for a Maori chant when cutting trees with toki which, as it has been said, was textually preserved in a Mapuche tale (ibid, 1931)."

(Transpacific Contacts: The Mapuche Connection, Ramirez, Jose Miguel. 1990/91. from Rapa Nui Journal Vol. 4 Nº 4: 53-55; http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/rapanui/mapuche.html)

(b) (2007) Recent scientific findings involving chicken bone (alive 600 or 700 years ago) is making it more convincing that America-Polynesia contacts were made and traversing the huge ocean distances was well within the abilities of early mariners. This study will appear in proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Its lead author is New Zealand anthropologist Alice Storey.

2. Transpacific Contacts: The Mapuche Connection, Ramirez, Jose Miguel. 1990/91. from Rapa Nui Journal Vol. 4 Nº 4: 53-55; http://www.pvs.hawaii.org/rapanui/mapuche.html

3. Marco Polo Go to China?, Frances Wood, Westview Press, Jan 1, 1998; Wood writes about assertions that Marco Polo never visited the Far East. Whether theose assertions are true or not, Wood quoted several references that show a European-Chinese contact before Marco Polo ever set foot in China,

4. In his controversial book "1421: The Year China Discovered the World," British author and ex-Royal Navy officer Gavin Menzies announced to the world that the Chinese and not Columbus had actually discovered America.

5. African Origin of Civilation, Cheikh Anta Diop, Lawrence Hill Books, 1974, p.47

6. "In the main, Polynesian families tend to be patrilineal rather than matrilineal though family headship frequently passed to and through first-born or otherwise high-ranking women." (The Journal of Pacific History, Sept, 1997 by Niel Gunson)

7. A program entitled "DaVinci and the Mystery of the Shroud" showed convincing evidence that the shroud is a fraud, and that it alledged that the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci was involved in the rouse.

8. Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa, p.181: "These texts reveal a concept of a supreme being, which far from being vague, as Williams had supposed, is to a remarkable degree for a preliterate people theologically sophisticated and mature. Indeed, so impressed was Powell with the "monotheism" of the Samoan myth of creation that he was led to conjection that "those who had handed it down, from father to son, from time immemorial, as and inviolable trust," must have been "closely allied to the original possessors of the Mosaic record."

9. William Sullivan, Secret of the Incas, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1996, p. 301, "The Inca Empire was the outward manifestation of an experiment in sympathetic magic...As the drama of Andean history built toward its foreordained inundation of sorrows, the only glimmer of salvation lay with the guttering flame of the Fifth Sun...If Time was merciless, then it must be stopped."

10. Could there be hints found in Native American myths of the Lehi migration? I think that there might be. Take for example the Aztec migration myth: "As illustrated in the pages of the Codex Boturini, the Aztecs left their island homeland of Aztlan in the year 1 Flint and canoed across the lake of Culhuacan where they erected a crude temple to their patron deity Huitzilopochtli (Boone 1991:125-127). Eight groups, each identified by a house, a seated leader, and a name sign, left together on this great migration journey. Also accompanying them were four tribal leaders, or god-bearers, one of whom carried on his back an image Huitzilopochtli in the form of a mummy bundle and wearing a hummingbird helmet." (Landscape and Power in Ancient Meso-America, Rex Koontz, Kathryn Rees-Taylor Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2001. pp.30-31)

11. Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa, Harvard University Press, 1983, p.122. - "Indeed, so crucial is genealogy to the traditional hierarchies of Samoan communities and districts that the unauthorized recitation of genealogies is strictly forbidden..."

12. "Dr. Beauchamp once wrote: 'The Onandagas have not move over twenty miles in two hundred and fifty years, yet how much their tongue has changed in half that time! A migration to new and distant homes would have produced many new words, and then the language would have remained much the same for a time, waiting for other disturbing causes.' Clearly if any conditions could favor linquistic change it would be the complete isolation of an initially small band of people in an extensive and entirely new environment." (Studies of the Book of Mormon, Brigham D. Madsen, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1985, pp.41-42)

13 History of Machu Picchu, University of Colorado at Denver, http://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/machupicchu/history.htm

14. "This 'cave' (really a cave-like rock shelter located in Northwestern Oklahoma close to the Colorado line), as well as others like it in the vicinity, was first recorded by Gloria Farley after her visit to the site in June 1978. She especially remarked upon the Anubis figure you see here as well as the figure with the rayed head surmounting the "cube-in-perspective" or '3-D Cube' (as some have called it). Besides the Egyptian motifs, she also noted the ogam-like strokes and a number of other apparent Celtic connections." Translation of the ogam by B. Fell indicated that the site was used for Celtic rites. (Buchanan, Donal, and Buchanan, Ann; "The Anubis Cave in Old World Iconography," ESRS Bulletin, 18:27, October 1991.) ESRS = Early Sites Research Society. (From Science Frontiers #82, JUL-AUG 1992. © 1992-2000 William R. Corliss; http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf082/index.htm)

15. See also Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa, Harvard University Press, 1983, p.179-180.

16. The Book of Hirum, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, HarpeCollins Publishers, Hammersmith, London, 2003

17. "The Ilocabs were 'seers,' perhaps in the sense of scouts, and were placed in outpost positions." (The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan, Robert M. Carmack, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1981, p.62)

18. "The Tamubs and Ilocabs, as suggested by their names, performed the auxiliary services of military communication (tamub, "drummer") and intelligence (ilocab, "seer" or "scout")." (Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, p.72)

19. "The name Tangaloa (and variants) has caused more discussion than that of any other Polynesian deity. E.S.C. Handy, in his study of Polynesian religion, suggested a Chinese origin and late entry into Polynesia. Hank Driessen has suggested the meaning 'long jaw' which, if not the origin, would have been a play on words regarding the sacrifice-eating maw of the shark god. Another scholar has suggested that Tagaloa as creator was a post-European-contact introduction into Samoa, an unlikely development since the Manu'a stories, linked with lineage history, appear to be of considerable antiquity. However, as Derek Freeman, Futa Helu, 'Okusitino Mahina and others assert, there is good reason to believe that Tagaloa was introduced or reintroduced into Samoa as a sky god from the east, hence his modern equation with the Christian Jehovah. The historical evolution would seem to be that Tangaloa was originally a sea god (Lord of the Ocean) from the Sanguir Islands north of Sulawesi who reached the Society Islands via Samoa in late prehistoric times. (Great families of Polynesia: inter-island links and marriage patterns; The Journal of Pacific History, Sept, 1997 by Niel Gunson)

That assertion could also be made of an American origin of Tagaloa. The Mayan god Tlaloc is depicted to resides in a watery paradise, Tlalocan. (Martin Brennan, The Hidden Maya, p.140)

20. "A most important feature of the Quiches' view of their world was its animatistic character. All things were alive and capable of acting upon all other things. The howling of jaguars or lions in the mountains could be interpreted as either the animals themselves or the priest-leaders symbolically linked with them. Powerful men could transform themselves into the animals magically related to them." (The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan", Robert M. Carmack, 1934, p.82)

21. The burial rites of the Peruvian Indians, as observed by Father Cobo in the 15th century, is very Similar to Egyptian rites. Inca Religion and Customs, Father Bernabe Cobo, p.250, translated by Roland Hamilton.

22. Concerning I Samuel 28: 3-35, "Oesterley and Robinson comment on the significance of this story: 'Nobody will deny that this narrative is an important illustration of the belief of the early Israelites concerning the departed. They continue to live, they remember, they foresee; they can leave whatever place it is in which they abide; and they can return to the world, in a certain sense.'" (Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, The Book of Hirum, p. 173)

23. E. Theodore Mullen, Jr. The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature. Harvard Semitic Monograph Series No. 24, Scholar's Press: 1980, ISSN 0073-0637.

24. "The k'alel was a 'courtier' who attended the ajpop in public matters as a chief judge and counselor. His role was to explain, question, witness, and denounce and so assist the ajpop in making important decisions." (The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan, p.171)

25. Inca Religion and Customs, Father Bernabe Cobo, University of Texas Press, Austin, p.108 (Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton)

26. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mothers to their offspring. Because scientists know how quickly this DNA accumulates errors, they can estimate roughly how many years it took to accumulate the changes.

27. Peter Marsh's "Polynesian Pathways"; http://users.on.net/~mkfenn

28. Richard Lloyd Anderson, "Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses", Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, UT, 1981

29. Ethan Smith, "Views of the Hebrews", Poultney, NY, 1823. In his book, Ethan Smith constantly refers the reader to artifacts and discoveries that were basis for his book.

30. Steve Olson, Mapping Human History, Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, p.202: "The ancestors of the earliest Americans migrated to the New World from central and eastern Asia, according to comparisons of Asian and Native American mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes. One type of mitochondrial DNA found in some Native Americans, haplotype X, seems to have originated in Europe more than 10,000 years ago, traveling across either northern Asia or the North Atlantic to reach the Americas."

31. Steve Olson, Mapping Human History, Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, p.195: "In 1589 the Jesuit scholar Jose de Acosta, who lived and traveled widely in South America, proposed that Native Americans were descended from people who had migrated from Siberia."

32. Fawn Brodie, "No Man Knows My History", p.67. "Scholars of American literary history have remained persistently uninterested in the Book of Mormon. Their indifference is the more surprising since the book is one of the earliest examples of frontier fiction, the first long Yankee narrative that owes nothing to English literary fashions."