Maui Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

Maui rejects the Bikinians

By Journal on January 14, 2022 1985, Back in the Day, Bikinians, Maui, Maui News, Move, Opposed, US nuclear testing, Waihee Back In The Day

Journal 1/18/1985 P1 Bikinians move to Maui opposed A public hearing was held in Maui December 13 to discuss the proposed move of the Bikini people to Waihee area of Maui. According to the Maui News, the residents of Waihee “seemed unanimously opposed” to the idea “although they expressed sympathy with the plight of the […]

Bikinians to settle Maui?

By Journal on July 16, 2021 Bikinians, Hannibal Tavares, Jonathan Weisgall, Maui, Milton Lai, Ralph Waltz, Waihee community Back In The Day

Journal 7/20/1984 P3 Bikinians visit Maui The relocation of the Bikini people to a 274-acre dairy in Maui is still lacking a formal “yokwe” but additional information was exchanged between the Bikinians (who were on Maui with their lawyer Jonathan Weisgall), and Milton Lai, a leader in the Waihee community, and Mayor Hannibal Tavares. Lai […]