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This is an ancient Native American village
located near Collinsville in west-central Illinois. Best known for the man-made earthworks, known as Monks Mounds. The name
Cahokia is that of a unrelated clan of Illiniwek that was living in the area when the first French explorers arrived in the
early 17th century.
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Fast Facts
- Possibly the first important center of the Mississippian cultures.
- Have no set writing systems
- Is a National Historic Site
- Once had a population of 10,000 to 20,000
- Name was derived from an Indian group that lived in the area at the time of French Colonization during the late seventeeth
and eighteeneth centuries.
- First intensive archaelogical investigation was carried out on this site in 1920 by Warren Moorehead. In that same year
the first aerial photos were taken of the site.
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