Cahokia! Little Hawk cannot believe he will soon be going there. No one in his village has been to the great city before, and now he gets to go there on a trading journey! What will the city be like? What will he see along the way?

The great mound city of Cahokia, along the Mississippi River, thrived from 800 to 1400 CE in what is now central United States. More than twenty thousand native people lived there at its height and many more came to trade and visit. Based on new research and illustrated with historically accurate drawings as well as archival photographs, this book tells the story of one family's journey to this awe-inspiring urban center.

From the dust jacket