Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis.

The article reviews Patricia Cleary's book *Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis*, which explores the history of St. Louis from its origins as a Mississippian city known for its large Indigenous earthwork mounds to its development as a trading post and modern city. Cleary details how Native American peoples built and used these mounds for ceremonial and residential purposes, and how most were destroyed during nineteenth-century urban expansion despite the city's appropriation of the "Mound City" identity. The book also highlights ongoing Indigenous presence and efforts to reclaim and protect sites like Sugarloaf Mound, purchased by the Osage Nation in 2009. The work draws on extensive research to challenge myths about Indigenous depopulation and emphasizes the continuous significance of Native peoples in the region.