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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LLINOIS has at last bought the Cahokia Mounds--at any rate the last state legislature passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for their purchase and Governor Small signed It. So these Important relics of a prehistoric people will be preserved to posterity as a state park. These Cahokia Mounds add the attraction of mystery to ft region rich In historical associations of national Importance. Monks Mound Is the largest structure of Its kind in the world. The Mississippi valley is dotted with the e#rth structures of prehistoric peoples and these Cahokia Mounds are presumably the most important of them all from an archeological viewpoint. When were they built? Who built them? What became of the builders? These same questions were asked of the Illinois Indians when the first white men set eyes on the Cahokia Mounds 250 years ago. The answer was the same then®as now--"Nobody knows." These first white men were Joliet and Mar» quette--French explorer and Jesuit priest--who came down the Mississippi in 1673 from Canada by canoe. In 1075 the famous Jesuit founded a mission among the Indians at Kaskaskla. La Salle began his operations in the Mississippi Valley In 1679 by building Fort Creve on the Illinois river ftt Peoria. Then the French settled all along the east side of the Mississippi from Cahokia to Fort Ghartres. Until the English wrested Canada from France in 1765 all this region was French. The French staid on, with the British as overlords. Then came the Revolution and George Rogers Clark's splendid military coup, with results that made the American march across the continent la* evltable--it which more later. First, as to the Cahokia Mounds: The illustrations herewith are by courtesy of Prof. Warren K. Moorehead and are from an article by Robert H. Moulton in America Today, Chicago, with the title, "Movement Is Launched to Preserve Prehistoric Mounds in Illinois." This article contains the following: "There is in Illinois a group of relics that stand to the prehistoric Indian culture of the United States as the pyramids do to that of Egypt--the Cahokia Mounds, near East St. Louis, including the Monks Mound, the largest known mass of earth ever built up by the labor of human hands. "Notwithstanding the fact that the Egyptian pyramids are masses of stone and that they stand In a region without value, they have been partially demolished. Complete destruction would before now have been their fate, in all probability, had the Egyptian pyramids been great earthworks and the surrounding land needed' for industrial development. A warning was sounded by Professor Warren K. Moorehead, the well-known archeologist, and largely through his efforts a movement has been started to have the state of Illinois purchase the entire Cahokia Mound region for park purposes. A bill having in view the preservation of these mounds failed of passage in the Illinois legislature in 1913. It appears, however, that it was not 30 much the cost of the land that deterred the state legislature from acting favorably In the matter, as the question raised by some as to whether the mounds were built by man or were a natural formation, notwithstanding that there has never been any doubt in the minds of archeologists as to their artificial construction. To set at rest all doubts in the matter, Profeeso* Moorehead, with the co-operation of the University of Illinois, Phillips Academy of Andover, Mass., and a number of individuals, began a series of explorations of several of the mounds during the fall of 1921 and continued them the following spring with the most gratifying results. Pottery fragments in great abundance, large quantities of flint chips, animal bones, and many complete human burials unearthed at considerable depths In several of the mounds, prove conclusively that they •re the work of human hands. It is the belief of Professor Moorehead that the largest of the group. Monks Mound, so-called because of the presence there of the Trappists during a short period between 1808 and 1813, was a very long time in the 'building and that it probably was begun as a repository for the dead. That Is, certain burials were made and other small mounds added as burlmis took place. Finally the structure became so large that the natives made it Into a pyramid, added the upper terraces and used the top as ft ^Utce of residence. * "While practically all of the Gabokia group of mounds, 72 in number, remain, their external <wbtour has altered since the pioneers in Cahokia archeology gave us clear word pictures of conditions as they existed several generations ago. In all written accounts of the mounds most attention aeems to have been concentrated on the largest tumulus known as Monks Mound. In fact, nearly •II the descriptions center In this ranking stnte- ZARW£imZ&e' JZ ture. The highest point of this mound as it exists today is 102 feet, its longest axis is 1,080 feet, and It covers slightly more than 16 acres. The great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt is 746 feet square, and the temple of the Aztecs in Mexico, 680 feet square. In volume, therefore, this Cahokia pyramid is the greatest structure of Its kind found anywhere in tbe world. "There is so much about the huge Cahokia Mound that is similar to the works of the Aztecs that it undoubtedly was from that part of the world that these people came, bringing their religion, their priesthood, their corn, their mode of life, and their middle order of primitive civilization. It is generally accepted, however, that the mound builders of Illinois did not observe the barbarous human sacrifices of the Aztecs. "Eminent archeologists estimate that the settlement of the Cahokia mound builders numbered 150,000 at the height of its prosperity. "They probably fished and hunted to some extent, but they likely depended for their subsistence upon their labor In the field, and their staple food was unquestionably corn." Now for the historical associations of national Importance. Kaskaskla was the first permanent European settlement in the Upper Mississippi Valley, as well as the first capital of the "Illinois Territory." Fort Chartres, named for the son of the regent of France, was built in 1720 by the French with the Idea of giving protection to the operations of the Company of the West--John Law's famous "Mississippi Bubble"--organized In 1717. The fort was abandoned in 1772, the British garrison going to Kaskaskla. It has now been In part restored by the state and its powder magazine, the oldest building in Illinois, will be used as a historical museum. When in 1763 the Jesuits were suppressed in France and their property confiscated " to the crown, the decree was enforced by the French commander against the Jesuits In Kaskaskla. The priests were expelled and their property, Including 200 acres of cultivated land, n}«ny cattle and a brewery, was sold. This was Just before the British occupation. During the Revolution "Hair-Buyer" Hamilton, the British commander of the region, with head* quarters at Detroit, Incessantly harried the American settlements in Kentucky by Indian raids. George Rogers Clark, a heaven-born military genius raised up by Providence for the occasion, conceived the plan of winning peace for Kentucky by carrying the war to Hamilton at Detroit. He began operations by capturing Kaskaskla, taking it by surprise, without bloodshed. The French of the Illinois territory called the Americans "Long-Knives" and believed them to be# bloodthirsty and cruel. They had no love for their British overlords, but feared the Americans exceedingly. When Clark captured Kaskaskla without bloodshed, treated the inhabitants with kindness and announced that there would be no. interference with their church and religion the simple villagers were overjoyed and enthusiastically took the oath of allegiance to the United States. They raised a company of militia and accompanied Major Bowman to Cahokia, where there was another bloodless victory. Then they volunteered to take Vincennes the same way-- which they did. So Clark got possession of every British post in the Illinois country without a battle and without the loss of a life. La'ter that fall as everyone knows, Hamilton led an expedition from Detroit and recaptured Vincennes, only te lose it to Clark the next spring and be taken te Virginia as a prisoner. 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These proceedings lasted five weeks and their Influence extended to all the tribes around the Great Lakes. Clark had no further trouble with the Illinois Indians. Virginia, which then claimed all this region. Immediately clinched Clark's victory by creating the l&ounty of Illinois." Col. John Todd,' as "County Lieutenant," took possession, set up a capital at Kaskaskla In May of 1779 and established a complete civil government. Cahokia also figures large In an ambitious plan by the British cabinet in 1780 to capture New Orleans, the Spanish posts west of the Mississippi and the Illinois Country. War had been declared May 8, 1779, between Spain and Great Britain. May 26, 1780, a raid was made on St Louis, the 8panlsh headquarters, by a force of 140 English and Canadian traders and 1,500 Indians, fitted out by Lieutenant Colonel Sinclair of Mlchllimaclnac (Mackinac) and led by a Sioux chief named Wabasha. A portion of the party crossed the river and raided Cahokia. Sinclair's official report says: "At Pencour (St. Louis) 68 were killed, and 78 blHckf and white people taken prisoners; 43 scalps Wfr#'brQUght In. The rebels lost an officer and three men at Cahokia, and five prisoners." Suddenly, without pressing the assault, the*eiftlre party decamped and scattered. They had discovered that Clark had returned In haste from Kentucky and was at hand, prepared to aid the \iunlsh. The very name of Clark was a terror t* the Indians. A high wind prevented signals (feruii being heard ; otherwise Clark would have had • Jiand In the hostilities. This attack was part of a general plan devised by I ,ord George Germain for the complete conquest of the West. Features of this plan were to bring down a force of Northwestern Indians on St. Louis; to send an expedition from Detroit to invade Kentucky and keep Clark busy; to bring a fleet and army up the Mississippi under General Campbell to unite with the northern expedition. The plan was a good one. 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