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Cahokia

American  
[kuh-hoh-kee-uh] / kəˈhoʊ ki ə /

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.


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Cahokia needs a savior, and it comes in the guise of Joe Barrow, a half-takouma, half-taklousa cop assigned to investigate the murder.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2024

Laura Miller spoke to Francis Spufford, author of the alternate-history mystery novel Cahokia Jazz, which explores those possibilities.

From Slate Feb. 8, 2024

Cahokia is part of the Union, although the rest of the country seems lukewarm about its statehood.

From New York Times Feb. 6, 2024

And it makes me wonder: How will future archaeologists interpret our contemporary relationship with Stonehenge, Egypt’s pyramids, Cahokia, Angkor Wat, and other ancient monuments?

From Science Magazine Dec. 29, 2023

Cahokia, biggest of all, was preeminent from about 950 to about 1250 a.d.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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