The
Dreamcatcher: a dreamcatcher is a woven hoop, decorated with beads
and feathers and you will find them in most Native cultures. The
dreamcatchers were made for the children. Parents would suspend them
over the young ones beds at night. The story goes, that all dreams
would pass through the woven hoop, and it would catch all the bad dreams,
so that a child would not have nightmares. The dreamcatcher couldn't prevent
the nightmare that the Cherokee suffered in 1838, however - when
Jackson's troops gathered the Cherokee off their land in the Carolinas
and Georgia and forced them to Oklahoma. The infamous Trail of Tears,
or in Cherokee "Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi," Trail where they cried. The
trip took 2 years and cost the Cherokee Nation many many lives. I will say, that what ever spirits watched
over my ancestors and saved them from that horror, I feel that they watch
over us still, and for that, I am most grateful.
