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"The Kivas of Heaven" discusses the metaphysical nature of the Native Americans of the American Southwest, as Gary A.

Timbers used in the massive Chaco Canyon Great Houses and great kivas may have originated from the Chimney Rock region, since there are few pine trees around Chaco Canyon.

He chose the name because Kivas are the underground religious rooms mainly used by Pueblos and other Southwest American Indians, and because he liked the sound of it.

Hopi and Pueblos still seek ancient knowledge in their sacred Kivas, and the Longhouse of the Six Nations is still powerful in Iroquois society.

The Soyal kachina appears in late December to open the sacred kivas for the winter solstice.

"Remember that these wall paintings are similar to those in your Hopi kivas," O'Neill reminded his students.

He did appear in Star Trek's Next Generation as Kivas Fajo which granted him fringe cult status.

Although the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and eastern Arizona long suffered religious persecution by Christian zealots, they were never driven from their homelands as many Native Americans were--never forced to abandon their traditional style of town, with its dance plazas and sacred kivas (ceremonial structures) which are integral to their religion.

Or just drop by and ask for directions to the Sand Canyon Pueblo site, where you'll see participants slowly uncovering a vast 13th-century complex of over 400 rooms, kivas, and towers.

Author, photographer, and art educator Bruce Hucko, writing in the first persom complemented by interviews with numerous children from the six Tewa-speaking pueblos of the Southwest, transports us into a world of ancestral traditions, ceremonies, symbols, dances, kivas, and pueblo life.

Cliff dewlliols, pit houses and kivas also served shelter needs in ancient cities.