Photo by Don Burmeister and Ira Block of National Geographic Cahokia Mounds is/was a Missippian Indian City State that rivaled cities in Europe at that time. It was among a collection of American Indian

Credit: Painting by Lloyd K. Townsend. Courtesy of the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois. Image source: Cahokia was a town that, at its peak from A.D. 1050-1200, was larger than several European

In school, my history lessons usually started with the Founding Fathers. The rich and vast history of pre-Columbian North American was relegated to several paragraphs as mostly pre-amble to a Eurocentric