One could speculate that religion was the most important aspect of their culture since it influenced such a large part of daily life. For this reason I shall put much emphasis on the religion of the Northwest peoples. One general belief held by most Native Americans in just about every region is that of non-interference. This is very closely related to the childrens' education in which they discover values of things on their own and develop their own relationship to them. Everything in the world fits into a whole .
Nothing is broken up into parts.
Everything is connected in some way or another. Native Americans believe that a man is regarded more highly for what he gives than for his wealth. They also believed that silence was the mark of someone respectable. A couple tribes did such as the Haida and Bella Coola, however, most tribes in this region believed in many powerful beings or deities. Each one of these supernatural beings lived in seperate worlds and those that lived on earth controlled the streams or the skies.