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.

## Offensive weapons

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### Edged weapons

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* 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[1]
* Ulu
* War hatchet
* Wooden war club

### Sidearms

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* Colt Single Action Army[2]

### Shotguns

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* Coach gun

### Rifles and muskets

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* Charleville M1728 musket[3]
* Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
* Henry repeating rifle[2]
* Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket[4]
* Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
* Peabody M1862 Action rifle
* Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle
* Spencer repeating carbine and rifle[2]
* Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle
* Trade musket[5]

### Projectile weapons

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* Bow[5]
* Crossbow
* Throwing dart
* Throwing knife[1]
* Throwing spear
* Throwing tomahawk

### Explosives and grenades

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* Adams grenade
* Dynamite
* Ketchum grenade
* Rains grenade
* Rains landmine[6]

### Machine guns

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* Gatling machine gun[2]

### Artillery

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* Hotchkiss cannon[7]
* Parrott 10-pounder M1861 cannon

## Defensive weapons

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* War shield

## References

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1. ^ a b Mahon 1958, p. 257.
2. ^ a b c d Loehr 2004.
3. ^ Morando 2018.
4. ^ Mahon 1958, p. 256.
5. ^ a b Mahon 1958, p. 255.
6. ^ Rutherford 2020.
7. ^ Mahon 1958, p. 264.

## Bibliography

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* 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). "Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 45 (2): 254–275\. doi:10.2307/1902929. JSTOR 1902929.
* Morando, Paul (2018). "French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville")". The Army Historical Foundation.
* Rutherford, Kenneth R. (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. About the Book. ISBN 978-1-61121-453-6. "By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed"

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