The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job ProPublica 12/19/2020
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This story was co-published with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Twenty-five years ago, the state of Hawaii and the U.S. government promised Native Hawaiians to correct a historic wrong.
Public agencies had occupied thousands of acres intended to return Native people to their ancestral lands, paying little or no compensation for decades as the sites were used for military bases, game preserves, schools and other purposes. In 1995, state and federal legislation pledged to provide reparations.