List of American Indian Wars weapons

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This is a list of weapons used in the American Indian Wars and Canadian Indigenous conflicts.

## Contents

* 1 Offensive weapons
* 1.1 Edged weapons
* 1.2 Sidearms
* 1.3 Shotguns
* 1.4 Rifles and muskets
* 1.5 Projectile weapons
* 1.6 Explosives and grenades
* 1.7 Machine guns
* 1.8 Artillery
* 2 Defensive weapons
* 3 References
* 4 Bibliography

## Offensive weapons

### Edged weapons

* Claymore
* Cutlass
* Dirk
* Flail
* Gunstock war club
* Improvised knife
* Inuit axe
* Jawbone war club
* Khanjali
* Lance
* Lochaber axe
* Morning star
* Pernach
* Shashka
* Snow knife
* Spear
* Stone war club
* Toggling harpoon
* Tomahawk
* Ulu
* War hatchet
* Wooden war club (sharp headed version and curve headed version)

### Sidearms

* Colt M1873 Single Action Army

### Shotguns

* Coach gun

### Rifles and muskets

* Charleville M1728 and M1763 musket
* Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
* Henry M1860 repeating rifle
* Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket
* Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
* Peabody M1862 Action rifle
* Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
* Spencer M1860 repeating carbine and rifle
* Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle

### Projectile weapons

* Bow
* Crossbow
* Throwing dart
* Throwing knife
* Throwing spear
* Throwing tomahawk

### Explosives and grenades

* Adams grenade
* Dynamite
* Ketchum grenade
* Rains grenade
* Rains landmine

### Machine guns

* Gatling machine gun

### Artillery

* Hotchkiss cannon
* Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon

## Defensive weapons

Shields and body armor

* War shield

## References

## Bibliography

* Loehr, Neil (2004), The weapons of the Indian wars, http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/03-04_Plains-Projects/Loehr-04-weapons.htm

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