Puyallu Tribe Research Paper

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Intro Have you ever wondered how the lives of the coastal and plateau Indians are affected by their environment?Or how they only lived of the land and their natural surroundings? Well the Umatilla and Puyallup tribes lived of the land successfully and did it with there surroundings.The Puyallup tribe of the coast and the Umatilla tribe of the plateau interacted with their environment differently and similarly to provide food, shelter, and clothing for their people. Body 1 Food is important in both the lives of the Puyallup and Umatilla but how do they acquire such a valuable resource? The Puyallup is a Coastal tribe that acquires its food like salmon, and fish through fishing and spearing in Puget sound, and rivers,they also collected berries and fruit from the plentiful plants in the surrounding area. On the contrary the Umatilla Tribe had a different way of acquiring food being in the plains they switch between hunting camps that hunt for deer, and elk and fishing spots that they fish for salmon in the Columbia River and forage for berries just like the Puyallup tribe but the Puyallup Tribe rarely alternated from camp to camp only doing in the Winter and Summer. This shows that the Puyallup and Umatilla are similar and different in more ways that one. …show more content…

The Puyallup tribe makes Cedar houses that are made of cedar wood planks that are made by cutting into a tree about halfway light a small fire to bring the tree down then they use tools to cut into the log and split it then the use the planks to make houses.Then on the contrary the Umatilla people do the same thing except they build ones with part of a roof in the summer.What this concludes is that they are very similar in many

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