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in 1959, Marks decided to partner with developer Joe Pao to develop the valleys as suburbs. After the Land Use Commission denied their request for the valleys to be redesignated from the State Agricultural District to the State Urban District in 1974, Marks and Pao chose to continue with development
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on April 21, 1976. However, the most well-known anti-eviction protest was on January 4, 1977, when residents of the valley blocked the road past the valley. After the protest, the Hawaii Housing Authority bought 600 acres of land from Marks and leased them to the farmers living in the valley. The
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without the correct land use designation. They evicted nine families to make space for new construction and raised rents on many other families living and farming in the valley. The Waiāhole-Waikāne Community Association (WWCA) then got a lawyer to collectively negotiate everyone's leases.
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struggle for the land and its usage continued in the courts as kalo farmers in the valley sued for rights to the water that was being diverted away by the Waiāhole Ditch, culminating in 2000 when the
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valleys. He began building the Waiāhole Ditch in 1913. When it was completed in 1917, it siphoned water from Oahu's rainy windward side to the dry leeward plains, where many
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The WWCA also protested while fighting the rent increases and evictions in the courts. A notable protest was in front of Marks' house in
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and farming by other ethnic groups living in the valleys. Many lived and farmed on land leased from McCandless in a system similar to
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Photographs from the Waiahole-Waikane Community Association I - Ed Greevy
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A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty
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acquired two hundred acres of land, including the Waiāhole and
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Index

eviction
Hawaii
overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Lincoln Loy McCandless
Waikāne
sugar plantations
kalo
Native Hawaiians
sharecropping
Hawaii became a state
Nuuanu
Hawaii Supreme Court
"Hoʿi ka Wai: The Waiāhole Stream Restoration"
ISSN
1045-7909
JSTOR
4229475
Native Hawaiian activism
"Mauna Kea Is The Latest In Long History Of Native Hawaiian Protests"
The Waiwai of Waiahole and Waikane
hdl
10125/21169



Goodyear-Ka’opua, Noelani
ISBN
978-0-8223-7655-2
"Worth the fight, worth the wait"
Photographs of the protests taken by Ed Greevy

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