Every 3rd grader knows that ancient people migrated to South America using walrus hide boats from Siberia, going south along the west coast of North America, then going thru the Panama Canal to reach the east coast of Brazil long before Columbus discovered Ohio.
“... long before Columbus discovered Ohio.
LOL - that’s good.
Not a chance in hell. Columbus was only renting a bnb in Ohio. My Jack Russell, a recognized authority in indigenous American populations, told me that it was pre-aboriginal Austrialians that migrated to Antartica, crossed the continent, caught a local flow as far as Tierra Del Fuego, and subsequently migrated to Ecuador and other points North.