You don’t believe that the American indian only had stone tools? What do you think their tomahawks and knives and were made of?
In the time periods that we have been discussing here and pertaining to the nation to which I am ancestored, the Ani-yun-wiya, they had traded with the Europeans for steel products...also, they used blowguns quite often.
If you want to go back further in time, that’s fine...Go back far enough and the Europeans used stone impliments and weapons...before that, sticks rocks and teeth...How far back do you wish to go?
Contacts by explorers and traders with the Cherokee continued in the subsequent years. Early manuscripts make reference to a treaty between the Cherokees and the South Carolina colony made in 1684. In 1690, the secretary of the colony, James Moore, ventured into the Cherokee country looking for gold. Some Cherokee chiefs visited Charleston in 1693 demanding firearms for their wars against neighboring tribes.
Until Europeans brought steel tomohawks and knives, stone. Obsidian makes a fine knife or hatchet blade; or arrow head, while we're on the subject.