Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 24718925, member: 5372&quot;]Maybe the problem is not a U.S. issue. Wallace and Hoebel research traced it to the French fur trappers. They had never seen a NA Bison, and were familiar with African and Asian Buffalos and called the NA Bison &quot;Boeuf&quot;.&nbsp; The French fur trappers traded with the Hunkpapa, and interestingly, there were African fur trappers working with the French doing the same, and the Swahili language had a translation of the African water buffalo similar to the Comanche pronunciation of kuutsuu. Kuutsuu translated into thathajka in Hunkpapa. The Spanish root was &quot;Bufalo&quot; and interaction with the Comanche and Apache (never pleasant) passed the word along, , and the Comanche pronunciation was thaauaa and the NA Indian word for the Black fur traders was phonetically &quot;tauaaooveaeetaa thathaj&quot;. Boofaauu was the closest Phonetic combined sound that became the easiest to use in trade...there was no phonetic &quot;L&quot; sound in Comanche really, so Boofaauu was sort of bastardized and took on the Spanish root of boofaaluu.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, French to Swahili to Comanche/Apache/Hunkpapa/Spanish derivitive combination.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of course it can only happen in America, so....maybe you are right, after all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in