[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIVE PEOPLES: Year of Kanaloa Kaho'olawe (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

"Kanaloa Kahoolawe"
A new era in isle's revolution

By KEKOA ENOMOTO
Maui News (HI)
October 17, 2010

KAHOOLAWE - A bomb crater nearly as large as a football field is like an 
open wound on the southern coast of the former Target Island.

The so-called Sailor's Hat - a gaping hole 75 yards in diameter and 
filled with brackish water 15 feet deep - anchors southwestern Kahoolawe 
island. The site was a peninsula, possibly like Keanae Point or Puu Olai.

...

Now the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana is calling the island "Kanaloa 
Kahoolawe" during a yearlong celebration of the Year of Kanaloa 
Kaho'olawe to honor the Native Hawaiian ocean deity Kanaloa. The 
enhanced name honors the 20th anniversary of the stopping of bombing 
Oct. 22, 1990, on the former Target Island - and also heralds a new era 
in the isle's evolution.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/541729/-Kanaloa-Kahoolawe-.html?nav=10


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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