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DECEMBER 14, 2000

Objections are being raised to the use of a Hopi word to describe structures the Los Alamos National Laboratory uses to perform nuclear experiments.

The lab calls them kivas, a Hopi word for a sacred, religious building. Kivas are present in all Pueblos in New Mexico and in Hopi villages in Arizona.

Pueblo leaders and others are asking the lab not to use the word because they say it disrespects Native beliefs.

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Don't Call Nuclear Sites Kivas, Lab Told (The Albuquerque Journal 12/14)