Story behind the Dreamcatcher
What is a Dreamcatcher? I thought dreamcatcher is an object that will catch our bad dreams or nightmares like that, but actually it is not related to our dreams. Instead in olden days they used it to catch harm coming from insects or evil eye kind of thing that might be in air these catcher will holds whatever comes. DREAMCATCHER is a handmade willow hoop, in which a net or web is woven to it and it also includes sacred items such as feathers and beads. Where it was originated? It originated in ANISHINAABE (refers to "the good humans") are group of culturally related indigenous people resident in North America. They speak in a language called ANISHINAABEMOWIN or ANISHINAABE LANGUAGES. In this OJIBWE tradition is also included which was originating long ago in the Great Lakes region. In their culture Dreamcatcher is a "Spider web charm", in their language ASUBAKACIN means net like, white earth band, BWAAJIGE NGWAAGAN means dream snare and ASABIKESHIINH me...