The Cahokia Mound Builder award is presented to individual(s) or organization(s) that have made a major impact in the preservation, development of interpretation of Cahokia Mounds and its surrounding archaeological sphere. Below is a list of previous Mound Builder award winners.

2011

Dean and Nancy Graves (Years of support of CMSHS)
Schwartz and Associates Creative, Inc. (Dedication to the interpretation of CMSHS)
William Iseminger (Many years dedicated to the operation, interpretation, and research of CMSHS)

2010

Margaret Brown (Many years of service and contributions)
Tourism Bureau, Southwestern Illinois (Support and contributions)
Dr. John Kelly (Many years of dedication to research and interpretation)
Larry Kinsella (Years of dedication to the support of Cahokia Mounds)

2009

Doris Marti (Volunteer, CMMS board and past president)
IL Representative Thomas Holbrook (For supporting and championing Cahokia Mounds)
Lee and Lila Vick (Volunteers, speaker's bureau, Lila CMMS board and past president, CAS board (Lee vice-president), Cahokia representatives for St.Louis Docents organization, etc.)

2008

Boeing Employees Community Fund (For donating funds for land acquisition)

2007

TOKY Branding + Design (Eric and Mary Thoelke) (Design and development of new website)
Open Space Council of St. Louis (Donating funds for demolition of Grandpas annex)
Art Grossmann (Photographer of Cahokia and exhibits, postcards, etc.)
Archaeological Conservancy (Acquiring land part of greater Cahokia site - Fingerhut, Powell, E. St. Louis, etc.)

2006

Albert Meyer (posthumous) (Excavator, illustrator, artist, CMMS Board, volunteer, CAS member and past president)

2005

Rick Jones (Donating demolition services for acquired house lots)
Paul and Mary Chucalo (Donating Chucalo Mound to site)

2004

Senator Evelyn Bowles (Grants for land acquisition)
Barbara Thoelke (CMMS board, coordinating land acquisitions in State Park Place)
Leo Konzen (Attorney, assisting with land acquisition legal work)

No Awards from 1996-2003


1995

State Park Volunteer Fire Department (Chief Terry Guffy, assistance with fires on site)
Robert Luken (Arranging for Mesoamerican exhibit exchanges)

1994

Nellamae and Myles Lowis (Gift shop, display fabrication and assistance)
George Stephenson (Donating air flights for photography)
Egyptian Radio Club (communications at special events)

1993

Lucille Stehman (CMMS board and founder, first gift shop manager)
Madison County Transit (Donation of shuttle bus service)
Richard Norrish (Editor of Cahokian)

1992

Leonard Blake (Ethnobotanist, avocational archaeologist, Cahokia enthusiast)

1991

Ettus Hiatt (Cahokia Mounds Museum Society, past president)
Evelyn Voelker (American Indian Center of St. Louis)
David Huntley (SIUE Museums director)
Collinsville Kiwanis Club (Donation/construction of picnic shelter)
Ramon's Eldorado Restaurant (Mecca for archaeologists)

1990

Contract Archaeology Program (SIUE, Bill Woods, excavations of museum site)
Gerard Hilferty & Paul Stromdahl, Hilferty & Associates (exhibit designers)
Design Craftsmen, Inc. (Chauncey Meritt, exhibit fabrication & installation)
Beverly Moseley (Beverly Moseley & Associates, dioramas)
Donna Lawrence (Donna Lawrence Productions, audiovisuals)
Cindy Reed (Hilferty & Associates, exhibit text writer)
Tom Kramer (Capital Development Board, museum project manager)
Jim Allen (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, agency coordinator for exhibits)
Norman Kutterer (Cahokia Mounds Museum Society, acting director)

1989

Chuck and Cal Morris (Architectural Associates, Inc [AAI], museum architect)
Robert Koepke (Cahokia Advisory Board chairman)
Roscoe "Buck" Eastridge (Capital Development Board, project chairman)
Frank Illingsworth & Bill Ferris (Booker Associates, museum project managers)
Ralph and Gary Korte (Korte Construction Co., construction of museum)
Miranda Mathews (Donation for interior bronze doors)
David Oates and Sid LeGrand (Oates & Associates, landscape architect)

1988

Frank Acardi (Director of Kahok Dancers)
Eugene Kramer (State Police District 11, radios for vehicles, etc.)
Harold Mohrman (CMMS board, avocational archaeologist)
Capt. Bobby Henry (State Police)

1987

Joe Webb (Former site manager)
Clyde Sweitzer (Private contractor, worked with archaeologists)
Diane Jeter (SIUE, slide show project)
Robert Goodrich & Judith Newmark (St. Louis Post Dispatch, coverage of site and events)
Collinsville Chamber of Commerce, Rick Murray, President (Support for site programs)

1986

George and Mildred Arnold (SIUE, donation for Woodhenge reconstruction)
Senator Sam Vadalabene (Supporting site and funding for new museum)
Judy Taplin (Collinsville Herald, coverage of Cahokia and events)
Walter Milton (Pepsi Cola Alton Bottling, sponsorship assistance for special events)
Ron Presson (Southern Illinois Tourism & Convention Center)