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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of southwest Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. It is located on the site of a large Mississippian settlement (c. 800–1350) with numerous extant earthworks.
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Cahokia is a short book filled with facts and details about a place that few know about, but through crucial research and discovery, it is possible to ascertain through subsequent Native American tribes and populations, what this great city was once like.
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And this drama was at the heart of a place we now call Cahokia, ancient America's one true city north of Mexico — as large in its day as London — and the political capital of a most unusual Indian nation.
'Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi' 2009
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The six-square-mile Indian settlement itself would come to be known as Cahokia, the name of the subgroup of the Illinois tribe dwelling there in the 17th century — 400 years after the city's heyday — when the French arrived.
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Passed a small village called Cahokia, a miserable, dirty little hole.
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Richard Lee Mason
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R.printed by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from "Cahokia" by Timothy R. Pauketat.
'Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi' 2009
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It's hard to know for certain, though, since "Cahokia," even though its narrative is almost wholly dependent on fascinating archaeological finds, fails to illustrate any of them.
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Centers of power such as Cahokia in Illinois - where the most impressive earthworks were built-hosted important festivals and ceremonies.
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Excavations were begun in the area of what would turn out to be the city of Cahokia in the early twentieth century, with a combination of some lucky guesses for sites, and with the great revolution to map America with highways, crucial archeological digs were discovered.
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You have reached the ancient and once great city of Cahokia.
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I grew up near the Cahokia Mounds in southern Illinois, which are advertised as the largest native American pyramids outside of Tenochtitlán, so I have a special affinity for archeological sites like this.
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