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 ...

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 ...

Can new scientific research help unravel the mystery of Cahokia's disappearance? In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous city with a population similar to London’s. But this sprawling Native American ...

NMAIMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Introduction / Ryan M. Parish and Charles H. McNutt -- ...

COLLINSVILLE — A movement to designate Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site as part of the National Park System may be picking up again. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth have reintroduced a ...

We know more about Cahokian civilization than those other places. A lot of archaeologists have been to China, Mesopotamia, South America, but I think it's fair to say that we know more about Cahokian ...

This is FRESH AIR. Novelist Francis Spufford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called "Cahokia Jazz." It's a hard-boiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native ...