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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 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]
Stone club, Old Fort Niagara, New York. Native Americans used many variations of striking weapons. These weapons were mainly used for melee combat with other tribes. In some cases, these weapons were thrown for long-range attacks. Stone clubs, or casse-tête, were made from a stone attached to a wooden handle. There were also variations of ...
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 ...
Raw material for making jawbone war clubs. A jawbone war club is an edged weapon that was in the past used by Native American tribes. [1] [2] The weapon is made out of the mandible of an elk, bison, horse or bear. It was common practice to add leather to make a weapon's handle. Such war club were sometimes painted with symbols of tribal ...
During the Middle Ontario Iroquois stage, rapid cultural change took place near the beginning of the 14th century, [8] and detectable differences between the Glen Meyer and Pickering cultures disappeared. The Middle Ontario Iroquois stage is divided into chronological Uren and Middleport substages, [9] which are sometimes termed as cultures. [10]
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At that time, most of the six Iroquois nations based in New York (who then numbered six, as the Tuscarora had joined them from the South about 1722) were closely allied to the British because of their lucrative fur trading. Guyasuta (c. 1725–c. 1794), a chief of the Mingo-Seneca, was one of the leaders in Pontiac's War.