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Before white traders arrived they used whatever was available locally (as every Neolithic culture did). Obsidian, native copper, chert, flint, bone and horn or antler were made into arrow points; some arrows simply had a carved or tapered wooden tip.

As soon as Europeans arrived they began to trade ready-made arrowheads to the natives, or thin sheets of metal from which points could be cut.

Many tribes took to usiing metal points so much that in time they forgot that their ancestors had made stone points - the Crows believed that their own ancestor's flint points had been made by a mythical race of dwarfs.

In places where white traders did not visit, such as the south-western desert regions, natives continued to manufacture stone, horn or bone points.

Powhatan arrows were often of hickory wood, an extremely hard and dense material, carved with point and shaft all in one piece. Some arrows were entirely of wood with a blunt end, for hunting birds and small animals.

On the Great Plains nobody was making stone points after the mid-19th century; every one of the metal arrow points used to kill Lt-Colonel Custer and his immediate command at the Little Bighorn fight was obtained from American traders.

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