Cahokia was a settlement built by the ancient Native Americans. It was the largest city that was ever built north of Mexico.
The Cahokia tribe, a pre-Columbian Native American civilization located near present-day St. Louis, Missouri, constructed large mound-shaped structures. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico.
The cahokia tribe
The inhabitants of Cahokia were Native Americans. Known as mound builders, they had a very advanced civilization before Europeans set foot in North America. They abandoned the area they held around the Mississippi River, and it is unknown what happened to them, or who their descendants may be.
The author's thesis statement in Cahokia is that the ancient Native American city of Cahokia, located near present-day St. Louis, was a complex urban center that flourished between the 9th and 14th centuries, with a sophisticated social and political structure, extensive trade networks, and monumental earthworks. The author argues that Cahokia challenges traditional narratives of pre-Columbian Native American societies as primarily small-scale and nomadic.
The Cahokia Mounds are the largest Native American mounds in the United States. The largest of these mounds is Monks Mound.
Cahokia was a major trade center for the Mississippian people in North America. It was a hub for a vast network that connected different Native American tribes over long distances for the exchange of goods and ideas.
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The major Native American nations in New Mexico are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples.
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The Cahokia Indians likely spoke a language belonging to the Siouan language family, as many of the tribes in the region were Siouan speakers. However, the specific language spoken by the Cahokia Indians is not known for certain as there are no direct records of their language.
Cahokia was the largest settlement in North America from 600-1400 AD, and perhaps the largest human settlement in the world in the 14th century before it's collapse (most likely to diseases brought to the Western Hemisphere by Europeans).