This weeks reading, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat is a dialogue surrounding the theory of the Cahokian people’s cultural influence on neighbouring Indigenous societies. Pauketat explores the potentiality of the Cahokian influence through the somewhat resemblant hoop-and-pool game, Chunkey, that lived on in tribes past the Missouri river. Various myths and comparable dialects throughout these different nations further proves the great influence of Cahokian people on neighbouring Indigenous communities.
The author argues that this Cahokian influence altered the ancient Midwestern, Plains and Southern Indian people’s lives in many ways. Pauketat argues that through the game of Chunkey, the Cahokian
