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Did Native Americans use their own weapons and armor?

I was recently reading an article about the Spanish Armada which chronicled the battles between the Spanish and native Americans. They seem to have done a fair bit of their own heavy-lifting, but for the most part it seemed like the Americans did the bulk of the heavy lifting. What kind of weaponry and armor did these people own? I understand some of them were spears or arrows, but I also thought they could have swords. Did the Americans actually wear armor like Europeans or was it just used for show?

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