Were the Indians with their bows and arrows and spears really defenseless against the British colonizers?

The Indians were not defenseless against the British invaders,they defended the territory of their own country with their own courage, and for hundreds of years, they always carried out an indomitable struggle and wrote a memorable page in history. Its combat power began weak, and then learned from the combat experience of its opponents, and constantly improved its combat weapons and combat methods, and its combat ability became higher and higher.

The Americas, located in the Western Hemisphere, were inhabited by Indians who flourished for generations before Columbus discovered the New World.

At that time, they were in a primitive tribal social form, and the advanced productivity of the Western countries at that time was incompatible. By the time the European powers were traveling in their ships, expanding across the oceans and onto this continent, they still did not realize the dangers that came with it.

This is due to the advanced navigation technology of the Western European countries, as well as the budding capitalist economy. The pursuit of wealth, one of the desires of mankind, rises to the level of the state, i.e., one of the inducing factors for waging war.

White men continued to annex their lands and plunder their living space and resources, and they relied on their powerful ships and advanced weapons.

The primitive tribes were far inferior in this respect. But they did not sit back and wait for their turn, they took up arms and began to fight, in order to have a better chance of survival.

In the beginning they fought with spears, which were used in inter-tribal warfare, but lost the battle against the white man's attack.

But they used surprise attacks to counterattack the whites and seized guns and ammunition in combat, as well as learning from the white man's methods of combat, and their ability to maneuver continued to improve, delivering a crushing blow to the enemy.