The Hopi people of Arizona stress the institutions of family and religion in a harmonious existence that makes the self- sacrificing individual the ideal. The Hopi individual is trained top feel his or her responsibility to and for the Peaceful people-the Hopi’s own term for themselves. Fighting, bullying, or attempting to surpass others bring automatic rebuke from the community. Implicit in the Hopi automatic rebuke from the community. Implicit in the Hopi view is an original and integrated theory of the universe . With his they organize their society in such a way to obtain a measure of security from a harsh and hazardous environment made up of human foes, famine, and plagues. They conceive of the universe-humans, animals plants supernatural spirits- as on ordered system funcitioning under a set of rules known to them alone. these rules govern their behaviour, emotions and thoughts in a prescribed way.