Charles A. Eastman’s story, “The River People,” in his book Red Hunters and the Animal People, describes the long lives of two beavers, “old Chapawee and her old man Hezee” (177). They live “away up the Pipestone Creek, within sight of the Great Pipestone Quarry” (177). In June 2016, my husband and I explored the Great Pipestone Quarry by walking the trail maintained by the U.S. National Park Service near Pipestone, Minnesota. Eastman notes in “River People,” that “the wild Red men would