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