Post #561662 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 26, 2010 10:54 AM

I am glad I will be able to attend this benefit and contribute in a small way. The history of "Easter Island" has been the inspiration for so many FOREIGN theories, from Thor Heyerdahl to recent media blitzes, but it is most interesting to actually hear the side of the Rapanui people themselves:

Rapanui, aka Easter Island, is NOT uninhabited and the supposed mysteries of the island can be simply explained by the Rapanui people who have lived there over 2000 years.
The Rapanui people carved and moved the Moai by “walking” the moai with rounded bottoms.
The Rapanui people did NOT deforest the island to move the Moai, there was a "mini" ice age in the 1400s which reduced trees on the island, rats introduced by foreign boats ate the seeds, and the Chileans rented the island to sheep farmers whose herds destroyed the roots of the flora causing massive run off of the topsoil, and the Rapanui people were sold as slaves.