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The gunstock club or gun stock war club is an indigenous weapon used by many Native American groupings, named for its similar appearance to the wooden stocks of muskets and rifles of the time. [1] Gunstock clubs were most predominantly used by Eastern Woodland , Central and Northern Plains tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The gunstock war club was mostly made from wood, but had a metal blade attached to the end of the club, like a spear point. The club was shaped like the stock of an 18th-century musket . [ 5 ] The design of these gunstock clubs was directly influenced by the firearms that the European settlers used. [ 6 ]
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The main weapons for the Iroquois were bows and arrows with flint tips and quivers made from corn husks. [185] Shields and war clubs were made from wood. [186] After contact was established with Europeans, the Native Americans adopted such tools as metal knives and hatchets, and made their tomahawks with iron or steel blades. [186]
The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their ...
A tomahawk, or war club, was the favorite weapon of the Native Americans during the revolutionary war. [13] These traditional hatchets were often made of stone and wood and could be used for a variety of purposes. [13] They were useful in hand-to-hand combat, could be thrown short distances, and were often used as tools. [14]
Commanded by Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton, the 1779 expedition systematically destroyed the villages of Iroquois tribes fighting for the British, but did little to stop the frontier war. [27] The German Flatts area in particular was the subject of repeated raids. [28]
[15] [14] Through war and foreign disease, the Illinois population drastically declined to a village of about 300 people by 1778. [10] Pushed out by the Iroquois and Shawnee and facing more numerous European settlers, the Illinois accepted a reservation in 1832 at the Big Muddy River south of Kaskaskia. But within a few months, they ceded the ...