Cahokia
CAHOKIA, the name of a North American Indian tribe of the Illinois confederacy, and of their mission station, near St Louis. The "Cahokia mound" there (a model of which is in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.) is interesting as the largest pre-historic earth-work in America.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
