
Our Native American HiSTORY: St. Louis Mounds
View of St. Louis from Illinois, with Big Mound in the background (right) Long before French or Spanish claims of founding the area, Native Americans formed St. Louis as the center of the largest civilization north of Mexico. This stretch of the Mississippi River has long been landmarked as a place to call home, long before "Louisiana was purchased". No one knows what happened to the Mississippian culture, also known as "Cahokians," that once called St. Louis and nearby Coll