Kennewick man came from Japan?

The urge to explore. The desire to see what is beyond the mountain. What spurs people to look beyond the safety of their community?
Jon Turk agreed that Kennewick Man was not an ancestor of our own Columbia Basin Natives. But where from if not an ancestor of the local Confederated Tribes of the Umatillas? Turk thought about the ancient skeleton unearthed in 1996, one which archeologists insisted was not of Native American descent but more likely was a Caucasoid. Turk wondered if there could be another origin. Could people have paddled across the North Pacific to reach the Western Hemisphere?
Turk was obsessed to the point he decided to attempt the trip as if he were a Jomon, one of the known ancient peoples of Japan. He wanted to find out if the long trip in a primitive dugout canoe was possible with no supplies, just surviving on what he found along the way. He was hooked on the concept of traveling alone nearly 3,000 miles from Japan as the ancients might have. He would skirt around the North Pacific to points in Eastern Siberia and single handedly paddle a canoe to Alaska's St. Lawrence Island.
Turk made his journey in two separate trips in 2000 and 2001. His first attempt failed when he hit a whirlpool and finally landed on an uninhabited island. He had no radio and couldn't call for help. But he felt he had no choice but to continue deeper into his quest for answers about the origins of Kennewick Man.
This adventurer is not the first to fantasize about the wanderings of early peoples from continent to continent, across unknown waters, or following the shorelines around land masses. The Norse, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark blazed historic trails. James A. Mitchener and Louis L'amour left epic adventures of successful fiction. Maybe Jon Turk has an adventure to share on a real time basis: In The Wake Of The Jomon.
Naomi Sherer