US to transfer federal property for Hawaiian home lands
by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher , The Associated Press
Posted Jun 14, 2021 7:22 pm EDT
Last Updated Jun 14, 2021 at 7:28 pm EDT
HONOLULU (AP) The U.S. is giving Native Hawaiians surplus land as compensation for acres that were meant for homesteading but used instead by the government. The land transfer also attempts to help right wrongs against the Indigenous people of Hawaii, officials said Monday.
The 80 acres (32 hectares) in Ewa Beach will eventually provide up to 400 homes while helping fulfill terms of a settlement authorized by Congress in 1995 to compensate Native Hawaiians for 1,500 acres (607 hectares) that were set aside for homelands but subsequently acquired and used by the federal government for other purposes, officials said.
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