Sacred eagleA copper headdress plate from Mississippian culture shows ... Earth from aboveA relief map shows the Cahokia mounds site circa 1913-14. Historic collection/Alamy Though Monks Mound ...

Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800–1400), when it ...

There are many other places to learn more about Spiro and Mississippian culture in Oklahoma. Head three hours west of the state’s capital to the Spiro Mounds Archeological Center, the only ...

Cahokia seems to also have been an important religious center for the Mississippians. On top of many of the earthwork mounds were temples and sacrificial sites, some with evidence of human sacrifices.

Members of North America’s Mississippian culture, Cahokia’s residents constructed enormous earthen mounds used alternatively as residences, burial grounds, meeting places and ceremonial centers.

The Cahokia Mounds and Mississippian Culture National Historic Park would include mounds in Madison, St. Clair and Monroe Counties, as well as Sugarloaf Mound in St. Louis. The park would be ...

Yet only one of more than 100 historic Mississippian mounds built by Indigenous people in St. Louis remains: Sugarloaf Mound. It’s a site very near the Mississippi River in south St. Louis that ...

On Sunday, boys and girls played three Native American Games at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. For about 30-minutes, a group of six children learned what Mississippians played 1,000 ...