A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and European settlers later introduced heads of iron and steel. The term came into the English language in the 17th century as an adaptation of the Powhatan (Virginian Algonquian) word.
Tomahawks were general-purpose tools used by Native Americans and later the European colonials with whom they traded, and often employed as a hand-to-hand weapon
Etymology
The name comes from Powhatan tamahaac, derived from the Proto-Algonquian root *temah- ‘to cut off by tool’. Algonquian cognates include Lenape təmahikan, Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon, and Abenaki demahigan, all of which mean ‘axe’
History
The Algonquian people created the tomahawk. Before Europeans came to the continent, Native Americans would use stones, sharpened by a process of knapping and pecking, attached to wooden handles, secured with strips of rawhide. The tomahawk quickly spread from the Algonquian culture to the tribes of the South and the Great Plains.
Native Americans created a tomahawk’s poll, the side opposite the blade, which consisted of a hammer, spike or pipe. These became known as pipe tomahawks, which consisted of a bowl on the poll and a hollowed out shaft.
General Purpose Tool
Many Native Americans used tomahawks as general-purpose tools. Because they were small and light, they could be used with one hand. This made them ideal for such activities as hunting, chopping, and cutting. Both the Navajo and Cherokee peoples used them in this way. The development of metal-bladed tomahawks expanded their use even more. Most Native Americans had their own individual tomahawks, which they decorated to suit their personal taste. As Native American artwork shows, many of these were decorated with eagle feathers, which represented acts of bravery.
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since i started Doing Politics i have like 2-3 dozen new friendly acquaintances in the span of less than two months it kinda goes (would b nice if some of them evolved into full friends tho
)is it too much to ask for a music player that doesnt stutter why is my laptop like this? also finamp? i’m assuming it’s some kind of powersaving thing, and the desktop mode of finamp is in beta so
I’m gonna try and cut my hair. It’s probably gonna suck, but I can always buzz cut it if it goes really bad lmao
Man I fucking hate walking across the street. Even with a stop sign I don’t trust any of these dipshits to actually stop and let me pass
Bird flu is gonna pop off for real now RFK is in charge of public health, isn’t it
you’d think people would be more normalised to public health policies around mass outbreaks after a major pandemic. but you know it will be so much worse if another one breaks out within the next 20-30 years. even well meaning libs are gonna kick up a fuss about having to give a shit about other people ‘again’
Mandatory exposure to speed up herd immunity, keep the lathe the hell away from me
it is november 14 and stalin saved the world from fascism
wait i’ve been painting my nails black for over a year now and no one told me how fucking hard disintegration by the cure goes? holy shit this album is goated
Zeno’s paradox ass train schedule rn
Hey everyone - I currently work in the growing gig economy of “AI training”. It isn’t really something I would recommend broadly, but I know that some people might appreciate some insight into it from my experience. It might work for some people as a good way to earn low-stress part-time remote work money. My personal experience, as someone with an advanced degree in the USA, I have been able to make at minimum $25/hr but on some occasions much much more ($60/hr PLUS “generous” incentives for completing a set number of tasks is the best I have gotten), although the availability of work is sometimes scarce and frustrating, and the biggest company in this space is downright evil and also incompetent.
I was considering that an effortpost about it given my experiences might be valuable to some people - it isn’t anything I would recommend as a permanent reliable source of income but for now there is money that can be made if you are lucky. Would people be interested?
I’m interested in hearing more about the experience for sure
What comm do you think would be good for that? Or just main?
* seeing a swastika in a Hong Kong movie that was never meant to make it to the west * oh it’s totally different in that cultural context. It’s actually an ancient symbol that represents an independent Ukraine.
It has been months since I watched and yet my enthusiasm for Furiosa does not seem to have eroded
It was so sick, action movie slop with some fucking PROTEIN for a change, I could write an essay about how clever it was and how subtly it went about it
So I seem to recall Biden threatened to begin thinking about maybe considering implementing possible consequences with regard to providing certain weapons if humanitarian conditions didn’t improve. Does anyone know if this happened?
“I’m not gonna speak to that,” Patel said.
That’s literally your job!
“Ah well nevertheless”
I don’t think anyone else consistently ignores my messages like my partner does. Feels bad.
that stinks comrade. some people just have different messaging patterns/phone glued-ness, it could be that? idk, i don’t know the specifics of your situation, but do you think they’d be receptive to it if you brought it up as a need that’s missing so you could find a compromise/balance that works for both of you?
Someone almost ran me off the road on my way home, just started trying to switch lanes into the space I was already in, no signal. Trains pls.
