Geography had important effects on Native American cultures. Compare and contrast the way geography was reflected in the lives of the Puebloan and the Powhatan peoples.

Pueblos is the name that referred villages. Spaniards were building stone and other local material houses and they called them pueblos, so this term villages Pueblos came later from the people who lived there. At first, they were located at Chaco Canyon, Kayenta, Mesa Verde and later entire Colorado. They were hunters but also later they were building unusual houses and they are nowadays famous for it. Places were they were settled were having special effects on their life because of language and materials that helped them to build and survive.

Powhatan people were traditionally from eastern Virginia. Because of material that they could find in their location, they were building a different types of houses. Their houses were called yehakins, they were made by bending saplings and they were placing woven mats over the top instead of the roof. They were fishing and hunting. If they were moving to some other location, they would burn all of their previous houses.