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Cahokia

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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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.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cahokia'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cahokia.html. 1910.
 
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