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Cahokia.

A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.

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name/kəˈhəʊ.ki.ə/UK/kəˈhoʊ.ki.ə/US
  1. A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.

  2. A Native American tribe now considered extinct.

    historical
  3. A village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Miami kahokiaki (“wild geese”).

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