Homecoming: Journey to Limuw (Stories from the Blue)

[@raymondalverez5999]

Awesome thank you from the great great great grandson of many Albrite/Hernandez/Martinez/Gomez/Alvarez family lineage. Respectfully RCALvarez 2023. We are not EXTINCT 🎉

[@SVDNGNL]

It makes me glad that this is happening, as one born in Santa Barbara, who did not meet nor hear of any local Chumash when I was growing up. I am grateful just to know this is happening

[@aryaastark9201]

Wonderful. It's always beautiful to see people reclaim their heritage and have the ability to pass it on to the younger generations.

[@goukhanakul]

I’ve paddled wa’a (outrigger canoe) my whole life and being out on the ocean is one of the greatest connections to my kupuna (ancestors) I can think of and everytime I’m out there I feel my kupuna with me.

[@InvisibleVoice477]

Wow!! this gives some real relevance to my childhood journeys in the dingy with my older brother and sister. It all makes sense now! 🤣❤😍

[@kerihandaly1312]

Extraordinarily beautiful, thank you for sharing

[@williamkuhns2387]

If I may offer a theory as to perhaps one different way for channel crossings the Chumash may have been able to communicate over miles of open water between the mainland and the islands using fire signals. When they wished to trade or for marriage etc primary reasons for making these dangerous crossings if two plank canoes met in the middle like Anacapa the two crews could pull up alongside eachother and make the necessary exchanges? This would save half the time/risk. Large bonfires burning at night could have been modified into a simple form of communication? Also as a night beacon for navigation. Nights have calmer ocean conditions ( both less wind and rough water).

[@raymondalverez5999]

Awesome tribute to our Ancestors ❤🎉

[@sandramorey2529]

Where does the name of the Island, Limuw, come from? The word "limu" in Hawaiian is the seaweed with another word to say what kind of seaweed. Ex: limu kohu. This was lovely and reminds me of Hokule'a, the voyaging canoe that sailed first to Tahiti & recently sailed around the world with the third canoe, Hikianali'a. They don't use any technical instruments and are teaching voyaging to the young folks. This ocean travel is amazing. Mahalo

[@TSideWes805]

It's clear they are our lost Polynesian brothas n sistahs! Clearly the white man don't want to admit this and empower the natives ✊🏾

[@goukhanakul]

I just posted a comment about the similarities of limu and limuw. It’s both pronounced the same and upon further investigation I’ve stumbled upon an article that there may have been a chance encounter with the Chumash and our Polynesian ancestors long ago pre European contact. We both have similarities in the fishing hooks that we’ve amongst other things it’s a very facinating listen. Cool to see similarities in indigenous cultures and maybe the relationships our kupuna made in the past.

[@zanderdaxjun2291]

The tomol plank boat have big and small version found in the Philippines called balangay the big one reach 25, 50, and 165 meters can sail to Pacific Ocean middle east and Africa..

[@zanderdaxjun2291]

The tribe similar looks with the Filipino, the plank boat very similar to balangay and the name PAGALING very common word and or native Filipino family name.. It's Amazing Same ancestors..

[@goukhanakul]

If you think of it Polynesians are descendants of austronesians that traveled from aboriginal Taiwan to the Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and the Americas. The name of the island is limuw which is similar and pronounced the same as the island limuw. In Hawaiian Limu is seaweed which we eat that grows in the ocean on the coast lines.

[@goukhanakul]

Wow in kanaka maoli or native Hawaiian we call the edible seaweed that grows in the ocean on the coast Limu the same way you pronounce Limuw. Anyone know the meaning of limuw and what it translates to?

[@TSideWes805]

They could very well be the easternmost tribes of Polynesian descent! More research needs to be done ASAP

[@hugoaguiar4400]

chichiwanga was a Chumash woman that invented the the brazier