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  2. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    Cutting weapons were used by the Native Americans for combat as well as hunting. Tribes in North America preferred shorter blades and did not use long cutting weapons like the swords that the Europeans used at the time. Knives were used as tools for hunting and other chores, like skinning animals. Knives consisted of a blade made of stone, bone ...

  3. Plains Indian warfare - Wikipedia

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    Guns were usually in short supply and ammunition scarce for Native warriors. [29] The shortages of ammunition together with the lack of training to handle firearms meant the preferred weapon was the bow and arrow. [5]: 23 [30] After the American Civil War, however, firearms were in widespread use. The U.S. government through the Indian Agency ...

  4. Northwest Indian War - Wikipedia

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    [189] A 2001 study suggested naming the conflict the "Miami Confederacy War," but Grenier (2005) disagreed since the war involved Ohio Native tribes and suggested the "Ohio Indian War of 1790–1795" instead, although noting historians had taken to calling it the "Northwest Indian War." [190]

  5. List of American Indian Wars weapons - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. It's Native American Heritage Month. Check out these ... - AOL

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    November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State.

  7. Battle of Fallen Timbers - Wikipedia

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    The Legion of the United States makes contact with the Western Confederacy on 20 August 1794. Fallen Timbers Battle [22]. Captain William Wells, Little Turtle's son-in-law and the commander of Wayne's intelligence company, was wounded along with some of his spies after they were identified spying in a Native American camp the night of 11 August. [23]

  8. Gnadenhutten massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (primarily Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, 1782, at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, during the American Revolutionary War.

  9. Ohio Country - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France.