The Mākua Valley Struggle is an ongoing land rights dispute between Native Hawaiians and the U.S. military.
[1] The struggle was triggered by numerous evictions in the Mākua Valley on the island of Oʻahu, and was followed by dozens of more threats, with the main targets being Native Hawaiians who had lived there for fifty years or longer.
This mass eviction is particularly notable, because the Governor at the time, Ben Cayetano, kept the media from reporting, and even went as far as threatening to arrest and suppress the press should they try to report on the event.
[4] First settlement in 1999 when the U.S. Army halted military testing until the Environmental Impact Statement could be completed.
In early 2020, a bill was introduced to clean up and return the land to Hawaii.