Dream catcher

I own a dream catcher and have it hanging on my wall however I really didn’t know much about it other than it was supposed to keep bad spirits away so I decided to see why it’s designed the way it is and something about the culture behind it. Originally it was the Ojibwa culture that created dream catchers. The Ojibwa word for dream catcher asabikeshiinh is a inanimate form of spider. This makes sense since the biggest part of the dream catcher is the web shaped top. The belief is that good dreams would be let through the web and travel down the feathers to the one sleeping under it and that those bad dreams would be trapped in the web doomed to perish under the morning dawn. In the 1960s many other Native American cultures adopted the dream catcher. Now anyone can go out and find one for them to take home. Some might think this is a sign of Native American culture giving way to the modern culture but perhaps this is a sign of hope that their culture is still alive and strong.