The Ancient Native City Hidden Beneath America – And Why Scientists Think It Was Once One Of The Largest Settlements North Of Mexico

The mounds remain.

And the people whose ancestors built them are still here, still carrying the knowledge of what was accomplished here, still insisting that this story be told.

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The Name We Do Not Know

One of the quiet facts that sits at the edge of every serious discussion of Cahokia is this: we do not know what the people who built it called themselves, their city, or the place where it stood.

This is not unusual in archaeology.