In 1916, a 14.5-mile tunnel was blasted through the Ko'olau Mountains to divert windward water to central O'ahu sugar plantations. The fight to return that water continues today.
Thirteen telescopes sit atop Hawai'i's most sacred mountain. The proposed Thirty Meter Telescope would be the fourteenth. The protectors of Mauna Kea are not anti-science. They are pro-aina.
A group of American businessmen backed by US Marines overthrew the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom. The United States has never returned what was stolen.
The US Navy stored 180 million gallons of jet fuel in underground tanks 100 feet above O'ahu's main aquifer. In 2021, it leaked into the drinking water of 93,000 people.
In 1920, Congress set aside 200,000 acres for Native Hawaiians. Over a century later, 28,000 families are still on the waitlist. Some have been waiting for decades.