Fort Sill, OK – A federal judge has stopped work on an expansion project at the Fort Sill Army Post that the Comanche Nation says would be built on sacred ground.
A temporary restraining order by Judge Timothy DeGiusti stops construction of a warehouse intended to be the new home of the post's Training Service Center.
The tribe has filed a lawsuit claiming the construction will obliterate one of the few remaining ``viewscapes'' of the Medicine Bluff National Historic Feature.
Medicine Bluffs has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 and is considered a sacred site by the Comanche.
The warehouse is part of an expansion resulting from the Base Relocation and Closure Commission.
The BRAC changes could bring as many as 10,000 active duty personnel, students and family members to the post.