Maggie's Farm

I was driving north through New Jersey one time, and the Interstate took us right through a graveyard. Headstones and markers were dense on the grounds to the left and right of the highway, but the highway went straight through the cemetery, someone's sacred land. I don't think the highway builders or the feds worried about the sensibilities of mere believers, agnostics, and atheists regarding where their kith and kin were buried.

When I lived in Hawaii, the locals were in high dudgeon because a highway was in the planning to go through what was suspected to have been, a long time ago, possibly, maybe, a burial area or holy area of some unspecified kind. Halted construction while they determined the degree and applicability of holiness.

And from what I've read, this pipeline location is where several pipelines already are, running under the same waterway, following the same path.

The graveyard (dating back to the 1700s) near where I lived as a kid has been cut back to allow for homesites.

Indian holy sites deserve the same consideration as sites many of the rest of us consider holy or special or sacred.