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To: bert
Cahokia didn't actually fail. The Indians in the immediate vicinity were among the first in the Americas to take to the horse. They then conquered the Great Plains ~ which the masses of buffalo had earlier made quite chancy for permanent human habitation.

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.

26 posted on 08/08/2012 6:52:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

How did I live to be fifty, even having been fairly well educated and traveled almost the whole of the continent... And never even -once- hear of a place called Cahokia?


36 posted on 08/10/2012 5:38:58 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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