The Native Indians used knives for many tasks including to help get their food. Just like today's knives, they were used to cut things. The Indians cut meat and things such as plants and squash to make their food. Unlike the common shape of the knives we use today, their knives didn't have to be shaped in any particular form. They just had to have a sharp edge. Certain types of rocks like flint when struck by another sharp rock would make a sharp edge and in that way could be re-sharpened again and again until the piece flint was to small to use anymore. Some stones were used as a whetstone to grind and sharpen the blade.

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