Lakota indian tale told by Brave Hawk...

I am Lakota and we have a holy ceremony we call the pipe ceremony
it is where the holy man prays and goes to a sweat lodge
then he asks the spirits if they will help him
one time a lady came and asked if the spirit could find her son who had drowned
so in the ceremony the spirit of the beaver came
and told her the son was at the bottom of the river but that he would bring the body
to a certain place by a tree at the bend
the next day they went there and found the body under the branch of the tree
there are many stories like this we have in our belief