[Tupelo]

RE:what happened to the anasazi?
what happened to the clovis people?
what happened to the kohokia people?

Is it possible, they just changed their names? Like the Papago (Bean Eaters in Spanish) did in 1986 when they officially changed the tribal name back to Tohono O’odham.

I am pretty sure the HoHokam became The Maricopa, Akimel O’odham and Tohono O’odham

Maybe the Anasazi decided they wanted to be the Hopi and Pueblo.
Maybe the Clovis thought Comanche or Apache sounded better
than Clovis.
Possibly the Kohokia preferred the sound of Algonquian better.

[blam]

"Maybe the Anasazi decided they wanted to be the Hopi and Pueblo."

The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection

[piasa]

Kohokia, if by that he means the builders of the mound city of Cahokia, never called themselves that. Cahokia was the name of a much later historic tribe, a member of the Illini confederacy, that settled on the ruins of the earlier moundbuilding Mississippi who never recorded their name for posterity. The Cahokia/Kabobs were asked by the French about the mounds but told them that they did not build them nor did they know who did. It is thought that descendents of the moundbuilders at Cahokia moved became the Quapaw after the city life became unappealing, either due to political discontent, or a particularly bad drought and fire, or flooding, theories vary. Cahokia did not end ubruptly in violence but more likely became disunified over time, as extended families or clans already accustomed to going on the hunt during winter months may have eventually decided they had the numbers and will to make it on their own and grow their own crops untaxed, and decided not to return to the city on the floodplain to plant and tend corn that might be “taxed” by an authoritarian ruler. Maybe there was a series of devastating floods that forced a dispersal, and bonds were not strong enough to cause a return.

[gleeaikin]

The Clovis were probably severly reduced in population by the same event that probably killed off most of the large anumals in North America, like mammoths, saber tooth cats, giant armadillos, etc. This of course meant that large Clovis points were no longer needed. I atopped at a small museum in Kentucky or Tennessee and saw that arrows and spearpoints there. Around 8,000 years ago they were all much smaller than the Clovis type points had been much earlier.

Sunken CIv; time to put up “THe Book.