Editing Cahokia (section)

=== Descendant communities ===
[[File:QuickToSeeSmith CahokiaStateNamesMap.png|thumb|350x350px|Cahokia: State Names Map (2023) by [[Jaune Quick-to-See Smith|Jaune Quick-To-See Smith]] illustrating the contemporary, far-reaching relationships Cahokia has with Native American groups and places. ]]
As one of the most impactful cities in the history of the North American continent, Cahokia's reach has been extensive. Many [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] peoples and tribes recognize the site today as being important to their heritage. The [[Osage Nation]] is a primary collaborator with archaeologists and site management.<ref>{{Cite book |last=National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior |title=Cahokia Mounds Reconnaissance Survey |date=2016}}</ref> One of the only remaining [[Mississippian culture|Mississippian]] mounds across the river in St. Louis, [[Sugarloaf Mound|Sugarloaf mound]], was purchased by the nation to care for it in posterity.

Many Indigenous people groups and nations including the [[Cherokee]], [[Choctaw]], [[Chickasaw]], and [[Muscogee|Muscogee-Creek]], carry on their moundbuilding traditions similar to those of Cahokia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Jay |title=Ancestral Mounds: Vitality and Volatility of Native America |date=2015 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press}}</ref> Native American people continue to venerate the site as sacred, coming to the grounds to perform ceremony and dance.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bloch |first=Lee |title=Sweetgum's Amber: Animate Mound Landscapes and the Nonlinear Longue Durée ni the Native South |date=2018 |publisher=University of Virginia |type=PhD Dissertation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2019 |title=Native American Tribes Support National Park Status For Cahokia Mounds |url=https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2019-10-01/native-american-tribes-support-national-park-status-for-cahokia-mounds |access-date=December 2, 2024 |website=STLPR |language=en}}</ref> The site has served as inspiration for much Native American art. Notably Howard Revard, an esteemed poet and member of Osage Nation, wrote about the site in ''Winning the Dust Bowl''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Revard |first=Howard |title=Winning the Dust Bowl |date=2001 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |pages=175–179}}</ref> Artist [[Jaune Quick-to-See Smith]], a member of  [[Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes]], displayed the works, "''State Names Map: Cahokia"'' and "''Trade Canoe: Cahokia,''" both  inspired by the site, as part of an exhibit at [[Saint Louis Art Museum|St. Louis Art Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 17, 2024 |title=Jaune Quick-to-See Smith |url=https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/jaune-quick-to-see-smith/ |access-date=December 2, 2024 |website=Saint Louis Art Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>