answer them, and they couldn't return to their former place. While floating
             around in the air, they searched for help from a god but with no avail. The
             animals were there, too, and they appealed to the elk, the most finely and
             most stately. The elk then jumps into the water and calls for the wind, which
             then lifted up the water like a mist. The elk then provides land and food. As
             for the concept of an afterlife, it seems that Native Americans were not as
             concerned with the hereafter as they were with their immediate life. However,
             an afterlife was a common belief that varied with the different tribes. Here is
             an example, the afterlife belief of the Lakota Sioux.The Lakota Sioux
             Indians have beliefs that are unique to their heritage. They believe in a
             reincarnate religion with certain ideas about the afterlife. It is believed that a
             person lives through four stages of life, or generations. These generations are
             childhood, adolescence, maturity, and old age. When a person dies, one of
             the four 'souls? from the generations travels along the Wanagi Tacanku
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