Kahokiaki

The Kahokiaki, or Cahokia, were an Algonquian-speaking people of the Illinois Confederation. In the seventeenth century they lived near the abandoned Cahokia Mounds, west of the Illinois River; the earlier mound builders were a different people.

The Cahokia and Tamaroa settled together near a French mission in 1699. In 1752 Shawnee and Meskwaki allies of Britain destroyed the main Cahokia settlement, and survivors joined neighboring Illinois peoples. Cahokia leaders signed the Treaty of Edwardsville, ceding land to the United States in 1818.