The Dream Catcher was quite an interesting "tool" of the Native Americans. They come from the Ojibway tribe. The dream catcher is a wooden circle with fine leather strings wove in it and feathers dangling from it. They are wove in a pattern so that there is a circle in the middle. This circle is where the good dreams go to and go into the feathers so they can be dreamed of again. The design is very complicated so that the bad dreams get caught in it so when the sun rises they burn and never come back. I find it's inspiration is probably a spider web. It seems to function in the same way as in catching and keeping everything good. So far on the journey i've found that the Native Americans can become very interesting and Hospitable persons if you treat them with respect. I hope to learn more from their interesting culture seeing that they may give us great ideas that could help us survive....................
~Meriwether Lewis
my mom has one of these at her work on the coat rack i never knew what it was untill now
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