The Cahokia Indians were settled near modern-day St. Louis, Missouri close to the Mississippi River. Some archaeologist believe that the Cahokia once had 20,000 Natives and over 100 mounds in their village. The reason they believe in these outstanding growth in people was the land around them...
They built earthen lodges near their fields, usually on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River. Like most plains Indians, they also hunted buffalo. They were enemies of the Lakota and the Assiniboine. In 1870, they were established in their present reservation at Ft. Berthold with the Hidatsa ...