[CPEO-MEF] TRIBES: Fort Sill (OK) construction enjoined

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Court stops Sill expansion disputed by tribe

The Associated Press
Army Times
August 21, 2008

LAWTON, Okla. - A federal court order has stopped work on an expansion 
project at Fort Sill that the Comanche Nation claims would be built on 
sacred ground.

U.S. District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti granted the temporary 
restraining order Monday that stops construction of a warehouse intended 
to be the new home of the post’s Training Service Center.

Col. Robert Bridgford, the Fort Sill garrison commander, held a news 
conference Aug. 14 claiming that the warehouse was about one-third of a 
mile from the Medicine Bluff National Historic Feature and that 
discussions with the tribe were ongoing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_sill_injunction_082108/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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