Environmental activists are crying foul over proposed new language that would hamstring conservation efforts while green-lighting development.

The National Endowment for the Humanities will award $90,000 to the Mānoa Heritage Center in Honolulu through a new Native American language revitalization initiative.

The designation puts Honouliuli under the management of the U.S. National Park Service to help preserve the history of the site where hundreds of Japanese-Americans were wrongly interned during World War II.