Tomahawk, the Glossary
A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America.[1]
Table of Contents
79 relations: ABC News (United States), Abenaki language, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (novel), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Afghanistan, Algonquian languages, Algonquian peoples, American Handgunner, American Revolutionary War, American Tomahawk Company, Arnis, Assassin's Creed III, AuthorHouse, Axe, Benchmade, Blade (magazine), Boarding net, Brooklyn Museum, Bullet to the Head, Ceremonial pipe, Cold Steel (company), Dances with Wolves, Daniel Winkler (knifemaker), De Gruyter, Delaware languages, Diplomatic gift, Eastern Algonquian languages, Emerson Knives, Ernest Emerson, Ethnohistory (journal), Forging, Fort Lewis (Washington), Francisca, Gerber Legendary Blades, Gettysburg College, Grafenwöhr, Grand Central Publishing, Hatchet, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hurlbat, Iraq, Iraq War, Jonah Hex (film), Knife throwing, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language, Mambele, Native American weaponry, Native Americans in the United States, Naval boarding, Nez Perce, ... Expand index (29 more) »
- Indigenous weapons of the Americas
- Throwing axes
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Abenaki language
Abenaki (Eastern:, Western), also known as Wôbanakiak, is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England.
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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (novel)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a biographical action horror mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010, through New York–based publishing company Grand Central Publishing.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and based on the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, depicting a fictionalized history of the American Civil War with the eponymous 16th president of the United States reimagined as having a secret identity as a lifelong vampire hunter fighting against a caste of vampiric slave owners.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Algonquian languages
The Algonquian languages (also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group.
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Algonquian peoples
The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.
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American Handgunner
American Handgunner is a magazine dedicated to handguns, handgun hunting, competition shooting, reloading, tactical knife and other shooting-related activities in the United States.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
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American Tomahawk Company
American Tomahawk Company is a US-based company which manufactures modern tomahawks for use by the US Military.
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Arnis
Arnis, also known as kali or eskrima/escrima, is the national martial art of the Philippines.
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
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AuthorHouse, formerly known as 1stBooks, is a self-publishing company based in the United States.
Axe
An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. Tomahawk and axe are axes.
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Benchmade
The Benchmade Knife Company is an American knife manufacturer based out of Oregon City, Oregon.
Blade (magazine)
Blade is a consumer magazine about knife collecting.
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Boarding net
A boarding net is a type of rope net used by ships during the Age of Sail to prevent boarding by hostile forces.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Bullet to the Head
Bullet to the Head is a 2012 American action film directed by Walter Hill.
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Ceremonial pipe
A ceremonial pipe is a particular type of smoking pipe, used by a number of cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in their sacred ceremonies. Tomahawk and ceremonial pipe are Fur trade.
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Cold Steel (company)
Cold Steel, Inc., is an American retailer of knives/bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons.
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Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut.
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Daniel Winkler (knifemaker)
Daniel Winkler is an American custom knifemaker based in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, US.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
Delaware languages
The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family.
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Diplomatic gift
A diplomatic gift is a gift given by a:diplomat, politician or leader when visiting a foreign country.
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Eastern Algonquian languages
The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the Algonquian languages.
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Emerson Knives
Emerson Knives, Inc. is an American company that produces knives and related products.
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Ernest Emerson
Ernest R. Emerson (born March 7, 1955) is an American custom knifemaker, martial artist, and edged-weapons expert.
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Ethnohistory (journal)
Ethnohistory is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1954 and published quarterly by Duke University Press on behalf of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
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Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.
Fort Lewis (Washington)
Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington.
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Francisca
The francisca (or francesca) was a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians (about 500 to 750 AD). Tomahawk and francisca are throwing axes.
Gerber Legendary Blades
Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
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Gettysburg College
Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Grafenwöhr
Grafenwöhr (Northern Bavarian: Groafawehr) is a town in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, in the region of the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) in eastern Bavaria, Germany.
Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.
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Hatchet
A hatchet (from the Old French hachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side. Tomahawk and hatchet are axes.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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Hurlbat
A hurlbat (or whirlbat, whorlbat) is a weapon of unclear original definition. Tomahawk and hurlbat are blade weapons and throwing axes.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Iraq War
The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
Jonah Hex (film)
Jonah Hex is a 2010 American Western superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
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Knife throwing
Knife throwing is an art, sport, combat skill, or variously an entertainment technique, involving an artist skilled in the art of throwing knives, the weapons thrown, and a target.
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Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy (skicinuwatuwewakon or skicinuwi-latuwewakon) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada.
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Mambele
A mambele is a form of hybrid knife/axe in central and southern Africa, originating from a curved throwing dagger used by the Mangbetu. Tomahawk and mambele are axes, blade weapons and throwing axes.
Native American weaponry
Native American weaponry was used by Native American warriors to hunt and to do battle with other Native American tribes and Europeans. Tomahawk and Native American weaponry are indigenous weapons of the Americas.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Naval boarding
Naval boarding action is an offensive tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel.
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Nez Perce
The Nez Perce (autonym in Nez Perce language: nimíipuu, meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Powhatan
The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah.
Powhatan language
Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian was an Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages.
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Prey (2022 film)
Prey is a 2022 American science fiction film in the ''Predator'' franchise.
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Proto-Algonquian language
Proto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the proto-language from which the various Algonquian languages are descended.
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Rawhide (material)
Rawhide is a hide or animal skin that has not been exposed to tanning.
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Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games.
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Rockwell scale
The Rockwell scale is a hardness scale based on indentation hardness of a material.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Shepherd's axe
The shepherd's axe is a long thin light axe of Eurasian origin used in past centuries by shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains and in other territories which comprise today Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary. Tomahawk and shepherd's axe are axes.
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Smoking pipe
A smoking pipe is used to taste the smoke of a burning substance; most common is a tobacco pipe. Tomahawk and smoking pipe are Fur trade.
SOG Specialty Knives
SOG Specialty Knives, Inc. (commonly known as SOG) is an American knife and tool manufacturing company famous for their reproduction SOG Knife from the Vietnam era.
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Stryker
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III, itself derived from the Swiss Mowag Piranha.
Tactical Knives
Tactical Knives (ISSN 1079-865X) was a knife magazine that was published six times per year by Harris Publications.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 American historical action film directed by Michael Mann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Crowe, based on the 1826 novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper.
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The Patriot (2000 film)
The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical drama war film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Robert Rodat.
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The Pittsburgh Press
The Pittsburgh Press, formerly The Pittsburg Press and originally The Evening Penny Press, was a major afternoon daily newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for over a century, from 1884 to 1992.
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Throwing axe
A throwing axe is a weapon used from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by foot soldiers and occasionally by mounted soldiers. Tomahawk and throwing axe are throwing axes.
Tobacco
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.
Tomahawk chop
The tomahawk chop is a sports celebration most popularly used by fans of the American Florida State Seminoles, Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Kansas City Chiefs American football team, and the English Exeter Chiefs rugby union team.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of Oklahoma Press
The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
The 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team is an infantry brigade combat team currently assigned to the Virginia Army National Guard, formerly known as the 1st Brigade, 29th Infantry Division; it is the largest command of the Virginia Army National Guard with an authorized strength of 3,400.
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172nd Infantry Brigade (United States)
The 172nd Infantry Brigade was a light infantry brigade of the United States Army stationed at Fort Wainwright, Alaska and later moved its headquarters to Grafenwöhr, Germany.
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2nd Infantry Division (United States)
The 2nd Infantry Division (2ID, 2nd ID) ("Indianhead") is a formation of the United States Army.
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See also
Indigenous weapons of the Americas
- Blowgun
- Bolas
- Clovis point
- Cumberland point
- Eskimo archery
- Folsom point
- Greene projectile point
- Gunstock war club
- Inuit weapons
- Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point
- Lamoka projectile point
- Levanna projectile point
- Native American weaponry
- Seneca people
- Southern Paiute people
- Susquehanna broad projectile point
- Tomahawk
- Yankton Sioux Tribe
Throwing axes
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk
Also known as Pipe tomahawk, Tamahaac, Tomahawk (axe), Tomahawk axe, Tomahawk pipe, Tomahawked, Tomahawking, Tomahawks.
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