Similarities And Differences Of The Puyallup Tribe

I.Sopke
Humanities ¾’
CBA RD
Mrs.Foreman

Do you ever wonder who the first Americans were? How they got their food before we had grocery store? How they dressed before we had stores to buy cloths? Or maybe how they built their homes before construction workers built them for us? Well, today we are going to be talking about the similarities and differences of two different tribes. One coastal tribe is a coastal tribe called the Puyallup tribe and the other is a Plateau tribe called the Nez Perce tribe.

Coastal people and Plateau people did many things differently when it came to hunting and getting their food, but they also had similarities. One thing that the Puyallup Plateau people did to obtain food for their people was they hunted on land and in rivers for salmon. Coastal people ate steelhead, heming, smelt, flounder, flatfish, lingcod, rockfish, halibut, and surgeon. They would go, “Fishing, hunting, and gathering fruit and vegetables,” it says in the text from the Encyclopedia of Native Americans tribes. Nez Perce people had fresh waters while Coastal people had salt waters .Nez Perce would eat berries, fruits, vegetables, and salmon. They disguised themselves as animals to hunt and used animal furs to do so. Both tribes also had things in common like how'd they eat lots of salmon, berries, and other fruits and vegetables.

Puyallup Coastal peoples built, “the common cedar plank houses of the region, sometimes called shed-roof houses.” It states in Encyclopedia, section, “Buildings.” Nez Perce Plateau people lived in houses that were covered with plants. During the summer they had to switch things up and they'd live in, “quickly-built lean-tos consisting of a pole framework covered with woven mats of plant fibers. Some similarities that both tribes had were that the houses were made of cedar