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Pre-contact technology among all natives throughout the Americas was virtually the same as it had been at the end of the Ice Ages - that is, Neolithic technology. This simply means that people used everything and anything that was available in their locality.

White traders made a significant change to all cultures they came into contact with. Fire-starting, for example, had always been a lengthy manual process using friction, by rapidly rotating a length of hardwood stick in groove in a piece of softwood; traders brought flint-and-steel technology that produced a shower of sparks immediately.

Bows were replaced by firearms, native pottery or rawhide containers were replaced by iron cooking pots; native buckskin clothing was replaced by trade cloth; stone tools and knives were replaced by metal versions that were easier to keep sharp and less likely to break. Coloured glass beads replaced the long and tedious process of flattening, dying and plaiting porcupine quills

Many other trade items helped to change native technologies almost overnight.

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