Grassroots activists prepare to survey Kahoʻolawe in 1976. Thanks in part to Mink’s advocacy, Congress finally voted to return the sacred land back to Hawaiʻi and end military testing there in 1993 after decades of sustained resistance.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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