Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle

Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them “wild cows.”"

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’”