In your opinion, were the differences between native american groups greater than their similarities

-  adaptation to physical settings: The native American groups lives in tribes consist of small number of group members which basically rely on the environment around them to sustain their living.

 the role of tradition, each members of the natives lives with a certain rules of conduct that must be honored

 the variety of goods and languages encountered in trading, some of them understand a way to communicate with the settlers, while some of them didn't