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Stars and Stripes - US to transfer federal property for Hawaiian home lands

Hawaiian federal property to be given to local Aborigines for homesteading

The U.S. Owes Hawaiians Millions of Dollars Worth of Land. Congress Helped Make Sure the Debt Wasn't Paid.

The U.S. Owes Hawaiians Millions of Dollars Worth of Land. Congress Helped Make Sure the Debt Wasn’t Paid. ProPublica 7 hrs ago ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was co-published with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. In the 1990s, Hawaii’s two elder statesmen U.S. Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka were at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the U.S. compensated Native Hawaiians for ancestral lands taken from them over the years.

The U.S. Owes Hawaiians Millions of Dollars Worth of Land. Congress Helped Make Sure the Debt Wasn't Paid. — ProPublica

Email address: Thanks for signing up. If you like our stories, mind sharing this with a friend? https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story?source=www.propublica.org&placement=share®ion=local-reporting-networkCopy link For more ways to keep up, be sure to check out the rest of our newsletters.See All Fact-based, independent journalism is needed now more than ever.Donate But an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica has found that those same senators voted several times each to support must-pass legislation that included provisions undermining efforts to repay millions of dollars in land debt to Hawaiians. At least six other current and former members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation have supported such legislation one or more times.