A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” long before people from “the old world” arrived.

In the 1800s, the mounds were named after the Cahokia tribe that lived in the area when European settlers arrived. But that tribe had moved into the area long after the mounds site had been abandoned.

The mounds in the St. Louis area are believed to have been built from roughly 800 to 1450. Even today, many mounds remain in nearby Cahokia, Ill. Experts believe that at one time centuries ago ...

In preparation, Lee visited the Cahokia Mounds twice and read as much as he could about the succession of conquering tribes who lived in the community over the centuries, including the Chickasaw ...

Visit this otherworldly tourist attraction across the river from St. Louis, Missouri - it's an impressive site of prehistoric indigenous earthen mounds.

St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains Mounds still stood prominently in St. Louis at its founding in 1764. Visitors — even members of ...

Such clues, she says, signal that Cahokia was not just a center of commerce or politics but a religious capital, a sort of Native American version of Mecca, to which different tribes sojourned ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — What is now St. Louis was once home to more than 100 mounds constructed by Native Americans — so many that St. Louis was once known as “Mound City.” Settlers tore most of ...

Tribal elites sometimes lived on them, Hunter said. The mounds in the St. Louis area are believed to have been built from roughly 800 to 1450. Even today, many mounds remain in nearby Cahokia ...