List of American Indian Wars weapons

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

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 Yakutian knife

Sidearms

Colt Single Action Army

Shotguns

Coach gun

Rifles and muskets Berdan rifle Carle rifle Charleville M1728 musket Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle Henry repeating rifle M1856 six-line rifle musket Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket Peabody M1862 Action rifle Russian musket model 1845 Sharps M1848, M1863 carbine and rifle Spencer repeating carbine and rifle Springfield M1873 Trapdoor rifle Trade musket

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 War shield

References

Bibliography