The Nez Perce tribes (Plateau) and the Puyallup tribes (Coastal) are every similar in many aspects of their everyday life's like food, shelter, and clothing. They are also very different do to their environments and customs.

Their food is some what the same, both tribe hunted deer and elk. They also fished for salmon as well as picked berries and nuts. But the difference between the two is the Puyallup tribes hunted more varieties of animals than the Nez Perce, such as raccoons, black bears, beavers, marmots, wild game, and twenty kinds of waterfowl. That's not counting the five kinds of salmon, steelhead, trout, herring, smelt, flounder, halibut, and the sturgeon they would catch.

As for shelters the two tribes had totally different