———Cahokia was ultimately a failed experiment.-——
Cahokia existed longer than America has as a nation.
Cahokia is located smack dab in the middle of the country and is on the way to everywhere.
I was there last October and wish I cold have stayed much longer. When you see the exhibits in the museum and the massive earthen structures and the Woodhenge and grasp the shear size...... you will be amazed. Cahokia was larger and more populous than London and some other European cities at the time.
You should make an effort and reserve a day or so to go to Cahokia on the way somewhere else. there is a strong likelyhood that the Indians who lived near you traded with those at Cahokia. The influence was pervasive
On our recent trip to England, we were in a group with a very nice couple who live just a few miles from Cahokia, and invited us up. We’ll go some time.
That round feather contraption Cherokee and other Indian dancers wear on their behinds is called, in a variety of languages, a "Butterfly", and frequently it's called a "cho", a very specific term in many East Asian languages meaning "Butterfly".
It's the Cherokee and affiliated tribes who brought the horse East to Oklahoma and Cahokia ~ their tradition is a group said "Let's move ~ not enough game. So, they had a horse. The message came to the tribe ~ probably through their shaman ~ "Cut the horse loose" so they did and followed him to roughly Tulsa. From there they moved out everywhere else.
The arrival of the horse in Mid-America changed the lifestyle required of human beings to survive. They no longer had to grow corn. I've always suspected the Cherokee picked up the term "Cho" in Cahokia.