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Canada and the United States

Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler. Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 366. Cloth $55.00, paper $24.95.

In the 800s, ancestors of modern Native Americans began to develop what became the Mississippean culture, a way of life that lasted until the first Europeans invaded the Southeast. Based on extensive maize cultivation, this society developed settlements connected by trade relations and stretching from Minnesota to Mississippi. By about 950, the Mississippeans living at what is now called the American Bottom in Illinois, just east of St. Louis, came together to begin the settlement of Cahokia. This community, which got its name from one of the tribes of the later Illinois Confederacy, became the largest center of Native population in America north of Mexico. Stretching more than six miles in each direction, the city had a population of between 15,000 and 25,000. Within its boundary stood at least 100 earthen mounds, some more than 100 feet high and covering an area larger than a football field. Because of its size, the large population strained the local resources badly. Gradually they depleted the forests, and that led to increased erosion and flooding that disrupted food production. Then, having to deal with the garbage and sewage for 15,000 or more people posed difficulties. Surviving evidence suggests that when Cahokia's rulers proved unable to deal with these threats their city faded away. . . .

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