Rezniggers and Armor

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I was watching some Chink movie about a battle that happened in the 700s AD. They wore armor, drove horses, had wheels. Something I don't see among Native Americans is armor. So educate me farmers. Did Native Americans, north or south, actually care for armor?
 
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It depends on who you ask.

If you ask some hateful, racist, white supremacist "historian", he'll tell you that yes, Native peoples did use armor. As other users are pointing out, they did not use metal armor (as metal was rare), but people in every region of North and South America developed their own styles of armor, using materials available to them at the time.

But if you ask your heart, it will tell you that no, Native peoples had no need for armor, because they were a wise, peaceful race, who lived in harmony with nature.
I'm not completely educated on the subject, but many tribes supposedly did, it just wasn't made of metals. Think different leathers and bone cobbled together. Versatile and resourceful, but not as effective.

For example, the Tlingit tribe of Alaska made armor mostly of wooden slats, leather and bone, with sinew attaching the pieces together.
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Basically its all just poorly made shit that answers your question as to why they had a tendency to die.
 
I'm not completely educated on the subject, but many tribes supposedly did, it just wasn't made of metals. Think different leathers and bone cobbled together. Versatile and resourceful, but not as effective.

For example, the Tlingit tribe of Alaska made armor mostly of wooden slats, leather and bone, with sinew attaching the pieces together.
tli_13_tlingitarmor_thumb_facebookshare_1200.jpg

Basically its all just poorly made shit that answers your question as to why they had a tendency to die.
Supposedly, the Aztecs' armor was more effective at protecting against mesoamerican ranged weaponry than European-style chainmail was, so that's not entirely accurate.
 
north american natives did not develop metal smelting and alloying technology at all, they only used raw copper, in small amounts

central and south american natives did develop some metalworking technology, they used bronze i think, but again due to low technological development it was only available in small quantities and low quality. they also had gold but that's not very useful for military applications.

what ultimately doomed them is that none of them were capable of working with iron. basically they were still stuck in their own little bronze age by the time columbus arrived.

i don't know if making chainmail or even plate armor from bronze is practical and effective, but their low level of technology and non-existent industrial development would make production of such armor prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, which is probably why they never did it on a significant scale. and even if they did, armor made from bronze is gonna be soft and weak in the face of the steel weapons that the invading european forces were using.
 
i don't know if making chainmail or even plate armor from bronze is practical and effective, but their low level of technology and non-existent industrial development would make production of such armor prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, which is probably why they never did it on a significant scale. and even if they did, armor made from bronze is gonna be soft and weak in the face of the steel weapons that the invading european forces were using.
There was a lot of use of bronze cuirass & 'suits' of plates used in battle, it was heavy and significantly less intricate compared to what most think of when one says 'plate armor'. It was effective but due to the cost related to getting bronze it wasn't something most soldiers wore.


I don't know enough about the situation in mesoamerica to really say if they could or couldn't, chances are no it wouldn't be that useful compared to the padded armor they are known to have had.
 
It depends on who you ask.

If you ask some hateful, racist, white supremacist "historian", he'll tell you that yes, Native peoples did use armor. As other users are pointing out, they did not use metal armor (as metal was rare), but people in every region of North and South America developed their own styles of armor, using materials available to them at the time.

But if you ask your heart, it will tell you that no, Native peoples had no need for armor, because they were a wise, peaceful race, who lived in harmony with nature.
 
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I know you only asked about the armor, but native Americans didn't have horses before European contact either. Nor did they use wheels to any great amount. Was this movie funded by Mormons?
 
I know you only asked about the armor, but native Americans didn't have horses before European contact either. Nor did they use wheels to any great amount. Was this movie funded by Mormons?
This was a movie about chinks for chinks in chink. It only got me thinking very randomly...huh, did NAs actually have armor because I have never seen them going into battle with more than leather loinbreeches.
 
The easy short answer is that Native americans are technically mexicans that went north and in the immortal words of Terry Davis: "Mexicans are niggers", and niggers don't make armor
 
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