The city of Santa Fe is delaying a $54 million construction project due to objections from Tesuque Pueblo, whose ancestral home is located in the city.

The city wants to tear down the old convention center and put up a new civic center and underground garage. But the land in question is located on a pueblo village where tribal ancestors are buried.

The tribe doesn't want its ancestors removed but a state official suggested the tribe will have to compromise. "They say they don�t have a ceremony to put people back in the ground, but, you know, other pueblos have developed those ceremonies. � If Tesuque really wants to respect the dead, they�re going to have to do that," said Tim Maxwell, the director of the Office of Archaeological Studies, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

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City postpones construction (The Santa Fe New Mexican 10/18)
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