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?
You asked the question, "With this in mind, I ask you...If China or Russia or any other country for that matter landed on our shores to take over...would you fight them? Would you try to adapt? Would you slowly give up where you lived and what you had experienced for your lifetime?"
My answer to that was "If you were a stone age people that was merely a tribe of people instead of being an actual country like a Sweden or Egypt or Peru, then you would probably resist at first just like you did when other tribes tried to move in, or the way they resisted you when you were taking their land from them.
In the end you would deal with the daily reality of Indian life for thousands of years, you took if you were stronger, and you abandoned when you were weaker."
The indians were stone age people.