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Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle
Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them “wild cows.”"
Parent page: Book of Mormon/Animals/Cattle
Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them “wild cows.”"
John L. Sorenson:
As with many other animals in the Book of Mormon, it is likely that these Book of Mormon terms are the product of reassigning familiar labels to unfamiliar items...The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them “wild cows.” Likewise the “explorer DeSoto called the buffalo simply vaca, cow. The Delaware Indians named the cow after the deer, and the Miami tribe labeled sheep, when they first saw them, ‘looks-like-a-cow’”[1]
Notes
- ↑ John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996 [1985]), 294.