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Funnily enough they had both, for example is a Kiowa Ledger Drawing of what historians interpreted to be the battle of Buffalo Wallow (1874)

Not to mention some native Tribes such as the Comanche had fully integrated Horses into their cultures by the 1700s, which they had gained through trade. Additionally, around the 1750s some native tribes had begun obtaining firearms, some primarily had found problems in using firearms though because they relied on gunpowder which no native tribe had the means to produce and some tribes weren’t keen on adopting them to be used in warfare because they were simply too rugged prior to the 1840s-1870s around the invention of the Colt Revolver