“Surely the Indians of the northeastern United States that Joseph Smith knew about shot their arrows rather than ‘cast them.’ A primary war weapon among Mesoamerican peoples was the spear-thrower, or atlatl… . This implement consisted of a carved stick about eighteen inches long that was grasped at one end in the user’s … hand as he extended his throwing arm behind him. The end of a relatively long, heavy arrow was placed with its blunt end against a notch at the far end of the atlatl, while two fingers of the user’s hand held the projectile parallel to the throwing stick” (Sorenson, “How Could Joseph Smith Write So Accurately about Ancient American Civilization?” 295).