This area encompasses many indigenous tribes of Indians too numerous to give sufficient details about each. They have some common beliefs however. The love and respect for the natural world, Mother Earth, the spirits of the ancestors, and their feeling of oneness and equality with nature, and the interconnectedness of all creation.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore,
every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and
experience of my people.
A Duwanish Chief

One has only to develop a relationship with a certain place, where the land knows you, and experience that the trees, the Earth, and Nature are extending their love and light to you, to know there is so much we can receive from the Earth to fill our hearts and souls.
Inti Melasques, Inca

A Teaching from Tecumseh

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, and beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your turn to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.