Cahokia people
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The Cahokia (Miami-Illinois: kahokiaki) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe and member of the Illinois Confederation; their territory was in what is now the Midwestern United States in North America.[1]
kahokiaki | |
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Total population | |
extinct as a tribe, descendants may have merged into the Peoria people[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
present-day United States (Illinois)[1] | |
Languages | |
Miami-Illinois language | |
Religion | |
Indigenous religion |
At the time of European contact with the Illini, the peoples were located in what would later be organized as the states of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas. In the 17th-century, the Cahokia lived near the massive precontact earthwork complex that Americans named the Cahokia Mounds.[1] By then, Cahokia Mounds had been abandoned for centuries. The Cahokia people were not related to the residents of Cahokia Mounds, who were most likely Dhegiha Siouan-speaking peoples.[2]