From: birdbrain@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <1118022749.018741.187920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   Wyvern75@yahoo.com says...   
   >   
   >I suggest you do a bit more research before you post on tomahawks.   
   >   
      
   Okay...now how about YOU doing yours!   
      
    The term "tomahawk" is a derivation of the Algonquian words "tamahak" or   
   "tamahakan". The earliest definitions of these words (early 1600's) applied to   
   **stone-headed implements used as tools and weapons.**   
      
    Subsequent references involved all manner of striking weapons; wood clubs,   
   stone-headed axes, metal trade hatchets, etc. As the years passed a tomahawk   
   was thought of as any Indian-owned hatchet-type instrument. That association   
   changed somewhat as white frontiersmen (traders, trappers, explorers) came to   
   rely on the tomahawk as standard equipment.   
      
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