The city of Cahokia

Six thousand years ago American Indian groups got Food by hunting, fishing, and gathering the fruit of wild plants. In time, a few groups began growing some food themselves. American Indians planted and harvested corn, beans and squash.

Cahokia is located in the southern Illinois. It is few miles from the city of St Louis Missouri. All around Cahokia are mounds, or hills, that people made American Indians built mounds by piling up thousands of basket loads of dirt.

In the late 1960s archeologist digging at Cahokia found a grave in the grave were the bones of a man, the bones rested on piles of beads made of Ocean shells. Nearby were two rolled sheets of copper and two bushels of Mica.

Mica is a material that can easily be seen through. People made it into ornaments