In Northeast Louisiana, fisher-hunter-gatherers from the Evans culture built Watson Brake, a large earthwork containing 11 mounds connected by ridges, between 6000 BCE and 2000 BCE. This site, ...

“Our identity has been frozen in time, and it’s going to stay frozen in time as long as we’re portrayed as mascots and things of the past,” said Matt Beaudet, a citizen of the Montauk Tribe of Indians ...

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Pre-Columbia, Cahokia Mounds was the largest, most complex urban center north of Mexico. Between 1050 and 1200 CE, Cahokia was larger than London with nearly 20,000 residents. The reasons for ...

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The name of the people who built the mounds is lost to time, so the city was named for the Cahokia Indigenous people who lived in the area during the 17th century, but who are not related to its ...

The event was the annual equinox sunrise ceremony at Cahokia Mounds National Historic site’s “Woodhenge,” a massive sundial built and added to from the 10th to the 12th century from the ...

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With 'Cahokia Jazz,' Francis Spufford tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the mists of America’s prehistory and morphs into an alternate version of America’s story.

The Cahokia Mounds Museum Society has won an excellence award for its “Back to the City of the Sun” augmented reality experience visitors can have through their smartphones.