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No. The only "cattle" related species the first Native Americans came into contact with--and tried to domesticate but failed miserably, or so some anecdotal evidence may suggest--were the great American bison.

Domesticated livestock, in terms of the bovine, did not arrive to the Americas until the last decade of the 15th century, where Spaniards brought longhorned cattle over from Spain along with settlers to attempt to settle in the New World. Even after then, these cattle which had escaped and formed large groups of herds of feral cattle, were never taken over nor owned by the Native Americans after then. Hunted some, yes, but never owned nor cared for like their European counterparts have.

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No, the first American Indians did not have cows. Cows were introduced to the Americas by European colonizers. The indigenous peoples of the Americas relied on hunting, fishing, and agriculture for sustenance before the arrival of cows.

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