List of American Indian Wars weapons explained

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

Sidearms

• Colt Single Action Army

Shotguns

• Coach gun

Rifles and muskets

• Charleville M1728 musket
• Colt M1855 revolver carbine and rifle
• Henry repeating rifle
• Meylin M1719 Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifled musket
• Pattern P1722 Brown Bess musket
• Peabody M1862 Action rifle
• 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

Bibliography

• • Mahon . John K. . Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare . The Mississippi Valley Historical Review . September 1958 . 45 . 2 . 254–275 . 10.2307/1902929 . 1902929 . subscription.
• Web site: Morando . Paul . French Infantry Musket, M1728 ("Charleville") . The Army Historical Foundation . 2018.
• Book: Rutherford . Kenneth R. . America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War . 2020 . Savas Beatie . 978-1-61121-453-6 . About the Book . By the end of the war in 1865, some 2,000 "Rains mines" had been built and deployed.