Cahokia Mounds Museum Society — Attraction in Collinsville

Historical site of American Indian ancient civilization. Thousands of Indian lived at this location. Because of the fertile land the Indians raised extra food and traded with Indians in neighboring tribes in other states. There is a visitor center that shows artifacts found at the site. They have a theater which explains about the Indian settlement. Also throughout the building are displays explaining Indian life and comfortable seating to view short films. There is a gift shop of course for your pleasure. They also have educational events during the month to further explore life in and on the Mounds. Every so often they have Indian artist from all over the USA to come sell their beautiful wares. A must see. Come see American History. Almost forgot, you can walk the grounds. You can walk up the main mount where the Cahokia Chieftain lived above everyone and also walk different pathways throughout...

Cahokia Mounds is a treasure in Southwestern Illinois, just a stone's throw from downtown St Louis. There are lots of other mound sites in the US, but this was the largest Ancient civilization. This is a very large protected site and has been the subject of many archeological digs and much study. The interpretive center is very informative, explaining, and illustrating with life size reconstructions, details about what is known about life in these ancient times and what is not understood. There are comparisons to life in Europe at the same time. The re-creation of Woodhenge is kind of cool. An iPod audio tour is available for a small fee and worth it. It doesn't match exactly with each exhibit because of some changes due to the COVID pandemic, but...

My heritage does not include these specific tribes but I still found the lack of effort disturbing. They haven't updated anything in at least 10 years, some in probably about 50. The Mounds are now more of an exercise area than sacred and revered site. It was easily perceptible how little regard was paid to the Native American history, except for a potential source of revenue. The museum was all but useless, and completely disjointed. The information was difficult to find and bogged down with arrogant and outdated comparisons to european culture, either at the time or even at the present. This place needs more funding so they can fix all these things so I encourage you to...