Dream Catchers
by Shelley Schoby, K-2 Art Specialist
The Chippewa, and other Native Americans like the Cherokee, believe good and bad dreams float around at night. They make a dream catcher out of a wood hoop with a web and feathers that hangs above the bed of a newborn baby or a newly married couple. The good dreams float through the web, down the feather, and onto the sleeping person in bed. Some Chippewa women still make dream catchers. Kindergarten students created their own interpretation of a dream catcher.
