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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
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THE BATTALU
Navy returns control of island to Hawaiians
NEWS IN BRIEF
By B.J. Reyes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KAHOOLAWE ISLAND, Hawaii
— Spotted with patches of dry grass
and colored by thorny kiawe trees that
thrive in the arid landscape, the red
dirt of this former Navy target range
supports little other vegetation, and
even less wildlife.
The uninhabited 45 square miles of
Kahoolawe are sacred to native
Hawaiians who feel the island,
untouched by tourists, connects them
with the spirits of their ancestors.
Now, after spending 10 years and
$460 million to clean up a half centu
ry’s worth of shrapnel and unexploded
bombs, the Navy is returning control
of Kahoolawe to the Hawaiians for
the first time since the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
The transfer will take place on
Tuesday, Veterans Day.
More than a decade after the last
round of ammunition was fired, native
Hawaiians are preparing for what they
hope will be the rebirth of the island
as a place where their cultural tradi
tions can be celebrated.
“You can get a feel on Kahoolawe
of what it was like to live on Hawaii at
the time of our ancestors,” said
Davianna McGregor, a native
Hawaiian with the cultural preserva
tion group Protect Kahoolawe Ghana.
“It’s important for us to have a place
where we can practice our traditions
without it being a spectacle, without it
being some kind of tourist attraction.
“It’s one place we can go to be
in communion with our natural
life forces.”
The island and its more than 600
archaeological and culturally signifi
cant sites are on the National Register
of Historic Places. Those sites include
old houses, religious artifacts, shrines,
remnants of ranches, and a centuries-
old quarry.
The island will be set aside for cul
tural, education and archaeological
activities, with no commercial devel
opment allowed, and access to
Kahoolawe will be controlled by a
state agency.
Six miles southwest of Maui,
Kahoolawe is the smallest of the
eight major Hawaiian islands. It is 11
miles long and seven miles wide. The
Navy has controlled Kahoolawe
since martial law was declared after
the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on
Navy returns
island to Hawaiians
Control of Kahoolawe island -
under martial law since the 1941
attack on Peart Harbor - will be
returned to Hawaiians Tuesday.
The island had been used as a
Navy target range.
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Pearl Harbor.
It was used as a target and training
area until 1990, when President
George H.W. Bush ordered a halt to
the exercises after years of protests
and lawsuits by native Hawaiians.
Congress later agreed to clean up the
place and return it to local control.
Cleanup crews already have
removed some 11,000 tires and about
9 million pounds of scrap metal.
“It’s a tremendous amount of
material and a tremendous tribute to
the folks that have worked out here”
on the cleanup, said Rear Adm. Barry
McCullough, commander of Navy
Region Hawaii.
The effort is not complete. As of
Oct. 31, about three-quarters of the
island has been cleared of unexploded
ordnance, according to the Navy.
The Navy is set to leave for good
on March 12, but will return to clean
up any dangerous materials found in
the future.
“There’s no way that they can go
back to that date when everything
went wrong to redo it, so what’s done
is done,” said Pam Waterhouse, who
has worked on the cleanup. “This cer
tainly is a step in the right direction.”
For the past two decades, the Navy
has allowed monthly access to the
island for religious purposes, and
teachers often bring their classes to
the Kahoolawe.
“It’s a very deep cultural experi
ence when people come to
Kahoolawe,” said McGregor, who
helps coordinate the trips. “It’s
really transformative. Kahoolawe is a
very special place.”
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escaped in his pickup, but were
tured at a high school hours
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school and treatment center at
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