Tribes wandered the plains in search of foods. What is now the Great Plains region of the United States? Some

Explore the darkening land, battle techniques, clans and marriage, law and order, and People believed in many deities, and prayed in song and danceįor guidance. The Indians of the Southeast were considered members of the Woodland Indians. Longhouses, village life, the League of Nations, sacred trees, snowsnake games, wampum, theĪrrowmaker, dream catchers, night messages, the game of sep and more. The Northeast Woodlands include all five great lakes as well as the Finger Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River. Native Americans in US, Canada, and the Far NorthĮarly people of North America (during the ice Today, many Native American artists make beautiful dream catchers to sell, to share, and to keep. There they stay, trapped, until morning, when the sun rises and sends them away.Īs other tribes heard about Ojibwa dream catchers, they adopted the idea. The bad dreams are tangled in the catcher. The dream catchers catches them in its web. They plunge about in the night air, and dart down towards a sleeping baby. Good dreams can wander gently through the night, and make their way down to a sleeping child, through the feathers and twigs of a dream catcher.īad Dreams: But there is nothing gentle about a bad dream. Good Dreams: The Ojibwa believed that good dreams are light as air. Dream catchers were woven by the grandfathers and grandmothers. They were made with an open weave so the good dreams could get through. Dream catchers were designed to 'catch' evil spirits, tangle them up, before they could enter your dreams.

Original indian dream catcher