| 11. | The Middle School uses a team program called kivas.
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| 12. | For example, kivas found in Mesa Verde were generally keyhole-shaped.
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| 13. | They also possessed an elaborate religious life, evidenced by many ceremonial kivas.
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| 14. | The structure was built up to about 40 rooms and featured multiple kivas.
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| 15. | -- Public kivas and graveyards are off limits to non-Pueblo people.
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| 16. | Visitors are also strictly forbidden from entering the subterranean ceremonial chambers ( kivas ).
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| 17. | It has an estimated 500 rooms, 16 kivas and an immense earthen plaza.
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| 18. | Victoria Hall was designed by architect Kivas Tully.
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| 19. | However, some kivas were built above ground.
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| 20. | Their villages also had kivas, or round, semi-subterranean ceremonial structures.
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