So St Louis used to be called Cahokia.
Home of Cahokia barbecue!
It’s just not the same.
No, there was a different, separate large mound city where St. Louis now stands. Cahokia lies on the east side of the river, in the farmlands between the bluffs of Collinsville, and the burned-out wreckage of East St. Louis a/k/a Beirut-on-the-Mississippi.
Cahokia is the name of a later group of Indians that had no knowledge of the Indians who originally built the mounds. No one knows what the original inhabitants called themselves or the city.
And Cahokey Blues...