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Originally Posted by BrianL99
Probably not, as the Native Americans' first exposure to gun powder, was likely a result of Columbus' visit to the "new world".
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Well I can answer that with some very interesting Historical facts. The Native American warrior was NOT at a real DISADVANTAGE from being without gunpowder. A skillful plains warrior with a bow and arrow could shoot over 5 arrows quicker than an Army infantry man could reload his SINGLE-SHOT rifle military Springfield rifle. The Native American tactics were to spring out of an ambush position and ride around encircling the standing stationary infantry troops. In that scenario the Native Americans had all the advantages. The US Army officers were the only ones with rapid firing repeater pistols which were no more accurate than their oppositions bows and arrows. People think a bow and arrow is slow to operate, but NOT so in the hands of the plains Natives. The BOW reloaded way faster than the single-shot army rifle. A Native American on their well-trained horses (ponys) were hard moving targets to hit by the stationary US solders single-shot rifles. They had the tactics and they knew the area. The US Army had many disadvantages.
........The population of the Native Americans suffered because of diseases from Europe that they had NO built up immunity against.