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...assume you believe in something, I some God, something?" the Pueblo councilman Domingo Atencio was saying in a voice as soft as the surrounding terrain: New Mexico...
This Indian's people, the Santo Domingo tribe of the Pueblo, one of 19 Pueblo tribes in the state, had been buzzed during an important dance by a low-flying photographer from up the road in Santa Fe. In another day, some of the more outraged Pueblo might have divided him into several parts. In these litigious times, they sued for $3.65 million. How quaint the tale appeared from afar. (Damages? "Infertility." Sex or soil? "Both.") And how levelheaded and 20th century it turned out to be from the ground. (Damages? "You can never put a monetary value...
...well, at a cost of $5 or $6 a foot, water is wealth. You rarely find surface water without finding Indians who found it first. This arrangement begets harsh feelings and busy courts. Into the thick of things, the crowded docket, come now the plaintiffs, the Santo Domingo, who charge that their privacy has been invaded by a lensman...
Directly, Bennie Atencio, the tribal secretary and brother of Domingo Atencio, called on Albuquerque Attorney Scott Borg. The photographer had been identified as Michael Heller, who had published the photographs of the Santo Domingo in the New Mexican, a Santa Fe newspaper. Atencio told Borg that "they wanted to sue them and sue them to make them hurt...
Other tribes may allow photographs or charge for photographs, said Borg, "but the Santo Domingo are the most conservative Indians in the state-and everybody knows it, especially the newspapers." The New Mexican is making no public comment; in fact, its editor, Larry Sanders, actually said, "No comment." The paper's lawyers have collected over 100 photographs of the Santo Domingo, the preponderance of them from the Museum of New Mexico, in an attempt to show that picture taking at the pueblo is nothing new and that the suit should be dismissed. Borg argues that the tribe has authorized...