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Mall Redesigned in Deal With Wal-Mart, Indians: A developer has redesigned a shopping center in Paso Robles, Calif., anchored by a Wal-Mart store, conceding to Native American activists who feared it would disturb ancient Chumash Indian burial sites. The National Congress of American Indians last summer threatened to call a nationwide boycott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. if developer James Halferty kept on with his plans for the 40-acre center in the Central California town. In a statement, Halferty, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Chumash elder Pilulaw Khus said the new design will preserve a 1.5-acre knoll where parts of a human skull and finger were found. It will also put a cap of new soil over a second area of the property before building begins.