Dream catchers native american made11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We suspect he’s not the only one who has let the school know what a disappointment it is to find an Asian-made emblem of Native American culture in the mail. We heard about this fundraising gimmick from one of the potential donors who received a Chinese-made dreamcatcher in the mail. ![]() It takes something beautiful from Native American tradition and makes it into cheap junk. To our way of thinking, that is overcommercialization in action. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, we think that is what has happened in the school’s fundraising effort that includes sending some potential donors an actual dreamcatcher - but made in China. With all due respect to the well-meaning people at St. But as the Wikipedia entry about dreamcatchers informs us, some Native Americans have come to see dreamcatchers as “over-commercialized, offensively misappropriated and misused by non-Natives.” Wherever it began, that idea has since been widely embraced by Plains Indian tribes such as the Lakota. Anthropologists say it was probably the Ojibwe among Native American peoples who came up with the idea of a “dreamcatcher” - a hoop strung with webbing - to snare the bad dreams so that a sleeper would only have good dreams. ![]()
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