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Cahokia

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

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.


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But Cahokia is surrounded by American robber barons eager to destroy its hierarchy and appropriate its treasures.

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

One wintry night, Detective Joe Barrow, who is half-takouma and half-taklousa, and his takata partner, Phin Drummond, are summoned to examine a dead body on top of the Land Trust building in Cahokia.

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

Sometime between noo and 1200 a.d., according to Woods’s as-yet unpublished research, Cahokia Creek split in two.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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