This weekend, with drums and rain sticks and extra-long Indigenous flutes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is preparing to stir the great American melting pot. “Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute ...
An archaeologist has dug up ancient human feces, among other demographic clues, to challenge the narrative around the legendary demise of Cahokia, North America's most iconic pre-Columbian metropolis.
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of ...
The St. Louis area on the east side of the river was once the cultural center of North America, long before European “discovery” and settlement of the Midwest. The ancient Cahokia civilization, which ...
The towering earthen mound oddly soars amid the flat-as-a-pancake river bottoms that surround it. Standing 10 stories tall, it’s impossible to miss from Interstate Highway 55-70 less than a quarter of ...
Dr. Tim Pauketat wants to change the way people think about pre-Columbian America. "Most people tend not to think of history before the arrival of Columbus, and they think of the ancient past as ...
Cahokia Socialtech + Artspace, an Indigenous-led community and cultural space downtown, is celebrating its first year of business on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday, October 10, with a massive block ...
It’s 1922, and a pair of homicide detectives are investigating a grisly murder on the rooftop of the Land Trust building in downtown Cahokia. The victim, a white man named Fred Hopper, has been ...
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