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The story of how kānaka stood up to the U.S. military, and won

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Native Hawaiian activists successfully ended decades of U.S. military bombing on Kahoʻolawe through a movement rooted in aloha ʻāina, eventually leading to the transfer of the island to the state of Hawaiʻi in 1994.

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