Our Kanehili Cultural Hui has been a HART Rail consulting party for years (they did everything possible to get groups to drop out - but we persisted) and extensively documented the Ewa Plain, pueo owl, traditional cultural farmland and the major Hawaiian populations that inhabited the Honoluliuli ahupua'a.
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Most people don't know that the largest pre-contact Hawaian population on Oahu was in Ewa Honoluliuli- because it was the breadbasket of Oahu - lush with farms, shellfish, fisheries and fresh water springs supporting a large native population. We presented all of this in many HART meetings in great detail- and everyone said we did detailed, accurate research work- but ALL was rejected by FTA and HART. This is because they had a PREDETERMINED LIE they were pushing for Ewa Plain land development with UH West Oahu, the faked named "East Kapolei" and "Hoopili" rail stations.
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This is the biggest Shining Lie about HART Rail and why it was started on the Ewa Plain.