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I was visiting family in St. Louis back in 2010. My folks and I had never heard of Cahokia. We all but stumbled on it. I’ve had an interest in the Mississippian culture ever since.
It still cracks me up when people talk about the europeans who say they founded this country. I grew up in the town of Cahokia about 10 miles to the South of these mounds. People who live here have no idea how historic and important this area was to the history of our country. The really funny thing is that we never really talked about our history in school.
Cahokia has a great interperative center. I think as of spring 2024 they're updating it again. Was grateful to grow up near the only remaining mound on the Missouri side.
The British say they didn’t build Hadrian’s wall, they inherited it from an earlier civilization, the Romans. The mounds were abandoned by 1350, 400+ years is a long enough break to say an earlier civilization created them. But many of the cultural practices defused into other Indian cultural practices like chunky, which originated in Cahokia was still played by the Mandan as recorded by George Caitlin.
@@matthewkopp2391 - Doesn’t explain the Giant skeletons found inside them . From the Ohio to the Mississippi River valleys on south. No Institution seems brave enough to acknowledge what many of us have seen with our own eyes. Such a shame of willful ignorance
I'm from the Village of Cahokia founded in 1699, north of the Cahokia Mounds Park, I love the history, a history that has been for well over 200 yrs, history all erased with a stroke of a pen and a crooked behind the door political move changing it it Cahokia Heights. I will always call it CAHOKIA!!
One thing's for sure we were not being told the truth about the prehistory of American Indians. And just how long and interesting the history was . Obviously we were being lied to completely about things concerning prehistory .
Lied to by omission certainly. Early on they claimed the mounds were built by a race of white giants. Once it was proven beyond doubt that the native Americans built them, they stopped teaching us about them all together.
What did St Louis folks think the park with all those mounds was? I hope now when new construction is done in the city, archeologists have the chance to excavate on the site first.
It’s for sure why they had the ability to grow like that in one area because they would have overused the soil if not for the floods bringing in fertile silt on a regular basis. I know Moundville sits on the warrior river but on the bank that is slightly above the floodplain with the opposite side of the river being on much lower land that see’s flooding and where they grew large fields of maze and I’m sure squash and beans in large areas also. Makes me wonder if they had the same technique for growing squash as my father taught me where you make a small mound about a little bigger than a foot across so you can make it around a foot high then plant a few seeds in the top after making a little dip in the top and then a few inches deep. It’s been a while so look up that seed depth if anyone reads this and thinks they’ed grow some squash doing it that way. We always planted cucumbers and zucchini the same way and of all the things I’ve ever planted those three were the easiest and had abundant yields to the point I’d let cucumbers get way to big and have to throw some in the compost pile before they quit producing.
Imagine if instead of building a massive levee system on the Mississippi River we had taken a fraction of that fill material and built large mounds and moved the river towns on top of them. I think these people came up with the cleverest adaptation to life in a floodplain they just built high ground to which they could retreat when the river came up. These folks were very smart, and they used the available technology and resource base to make life possible in this complex environment.
@@ben-jam-in6941 you make an excellent point about the sediment from floods keeping the soil from depleteing. Just keep in mind that we witness that phenomena today but we have a massive amount of people which depletes soil faster (need more crops to feed them!) That said, i digress, as i didnt consider living close to lands that flood by building up as to avoid the waters when they rize will allow one to work the flooded land quicker
Does anyone else think that guy looks EXACTLY like Dennis Rader … BTK ???? Like w😮. And BTK was from Kansas right?? Close to St. Louis …. Relatives???😂
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I was visiting family in St. Louis back in 2010. My folks and I had never heard of Cahokia. We all but stumbled on it. I’ve had an interest in the Mississippian culture ever since.
It still cracks me up when people talk about the europeans who say they founded this country. I grew up in the town of Cahokia about 10 miles to the South of these mounds. People who live here have no idea how historic and important this area was to the history of our country. The really funny thing is that we never really talked about our history in school.
Cahokia has a great interperative center. I think as of spring 2024 they're updating it again. Was grateful to grow up near the only remaining mound on the Missouri side.
Its insanity that our modern American or Local schools do not even mention these ever existed
It's been a field trip destination for over 30 years to the metro east school districts
Just think in a couple hundred yrs. They will say look at that empty beer can .
Native Indians say they didn’t build the mounds, they inherited them from an earlier civilization
There was no earlier civilization. Nice try though.
Don’t need your approval when we already hold proof. I live in and have been unearthing evidence for decades-your universities look foolish
@@Great-Documentaries You are completely wrong
The British say they didn’t build Hadrian’s wall, they inherited it from an earlier civilization, the Romans.
The mounds were abandoned by 1350, 400+ years is a long enough break to say an earlier civilization created them.
But many of the cultural practices defused into other Indian cultural practices like chunky, which originated in Cahokia was still played by the Mandan as recorded by George Caitlin.
@@matthewkopp2391 - Doesn’t explain the Giant skeletons found inside them . From the Ohio to the Mississippi River valleys on south. No Institution seems brave enough to acknowledge what many of us have seen with our own eyes. Such a shame of willful ignorance
I'm from the Village of Cahokia founded in 1699, north of the Cahokia Mounds Park, I love the history, a history that has been for well over 200 yrs, history all erased with a stroke of a pen and a crooked behind the door political move changing it it Cahokia Heights. I will always call it CAHOKIA!!
I live in Collinsville, still havent acknowledged it as Cahokia Heights either. I still say Centreville, Alorton, and Cahokia. lol
One thing's for sure we were not being told the truth about the prehistory of American Indians. And just how long and interesting the history was . Obviously we were being lied to completely about things concerning prehistory .
Lied to by omission certainly. Early on they claimed the mounds were built by a race of white giants. Once it was proven beyond doubt that the native Americans built them, they stopped teaching us about them all together.
What did St Louis folks think the park with all those mounds was? I hope now when new construction is done in the city, archeologists have the chance to excavate on the site first.
they built on a flood plane, maybe thats why they built so high?
It’s for sure why they had the ability to grow like that in one area because they would have overused the soil if not for the floods bringing in fertile silt on a regular basis. I know Moundville sits on the warrior river but on the bank that is slightly above the floodplain with the opposite side of the river being on much lower land that see’s flooding and where they grew large fields of maze and I’m sure squash and beans in large areas also. Makes me wonder if they had the same technique for growing squash as my father taught me where you make a small mound about a little bigger than a foot across so you can make it around a foot high then plant a few seeds in the top after making a little dip in the top and then a few inches deep. It’s been a while so look up that seed depth if anyone reads this and thinks they’ed grow some squash doing it that way. We always planted cucumbers and zucchini the same way and of all the things I’ve ever planted those three were the easiest and had abundant yields to the point I’d let cucumbers get way to big and have to throw some in the compost pile before they quit producing.
Imagine if instead of building a massive levee system on the Mississippi River we had taken a fraction of that fill material and built large mounds and moved the river towns on top of them. I think these people came up with the cleverest adaptation to life in a floodplain they just built high ground to which they could retreat when the river came up. These folks were very smart, and they used the available technology and resource base to make life possible in this complex environment.
@@ben-jam-in6941 you make an excellent point about the sediment from floods keeping the soil from depleteing. Just keep in mind that we witness that phenomena today but we have a massive amount of people which depletes soil faster (need more crops to feed them!) That said, i digress, as i didnt consider living close to lands that flood by building up as to avoid the waters when they rize will allow one to work the flooded land quicker
its Orion constellation
I’m sorry I just can’t fathom not knowing what Cahokia is especially if I was an adult from Saint Louis.
Yo Cahokia was not the name of the city
Galena is silver.Buddy not just lead it's silver
Does anyone else think that guy looks EXACTLY like Dennis Rader … BTK ????
Like w😮. And BTK was from Kansas right?? Close to St. Louis ….
Relatives???😂