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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

The story takes place in the 1920s, in a reimagined version of the ancient Indigenous city of 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

One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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