Talk:Cahokia

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[edit] Grammar

There is a grammatical error in the text ("The city population is thought to have relatively small," should read "The city population is thought to have been relatively small,"), but when I click on edit to correct this, I don't get the Cahokia text (I only get something like "cahokia" with double brackets around it.) Maybe somebody who can figure out how to work with Wikipedia can incorporate this small change.

Given the size of the city, this entry should stay separate.

[edit] Descendants

I Agree with a recent edit that removed a statement indicating that living Siouan groups are the descendants of Cahokia. Although some archaeologists have made a case for that, there isn't enough evidence, and the citation was lacking anyway. But I don't agree with the editor's comment that "The first siouan tribes arrived to the Mississippi area in the 16th century and can't possibly be descendants of the builders." Both the historical record and archaeological record are really too fuzzy to be SURE that some of the Siouans aren't descended from Cahokians- after all, the Osage origin story states an origin from the east, which could be Cahokia. The Quapaw supposedly come from the Ohio River Valley, but it could have been Cahokia. That's all; I just wanted to comment. TriNotch 22:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)