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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 stone clubs where tribes would carve the ...
Loehr, Neil (2004), Weapons Of The Indian Wars (Plains History Project), St. Marys, Kansas: Kaw Valley USD 321, archived from the original on May 7, 2005 Mahon, John K. (September 1958).
This category includes weapons created by indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those used for warfare as well as hunting. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century.
In Native American society, gunstock clubs are used as part of pow wow regalia or in other formal occasions. [4] The gunstock war club is the primary weapon of practitioners of Okichitaw, a martial art based on the fighting techniques of the Assiniboine and Plains Cree Indians. [6] It was recently rejuvenated by Canadian martial artist George J ...
Ball club – These clubs were used by Native Americans. There are two types; the stone ball clubs that were used mostly by early Plains, Plateau and Southwest Native Indians and the wooden ball clubs that the Huron and Iroquois tribes used. These consisted of a relatively free-moving head of rounded stone or wood attached to a wooden handle.
In the 20th and 21st centuries Indigenous peoples played a significant role in U.S. military operations; for example the code talkers of World Wars I and II, and Ira Hayes, one of the soldiers who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, was Akimel O'odham (Pima) born and raised in Gila River Indian Community.
Campell, Lyle (1997), American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509427-1; Douthit, Nathan (2002), Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon 1820s-1860s, New York: Oregon State University Press, ISBN 0-87071-549-6