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