… Dreamcatchers were adopted in the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and gained popularity as a widely marketed “Native crafts items” in the 1980s.
It originates in Anishinaabe culture as “the spider web charm” – Ojibwe: asubakacin, lit. Traditionally, dreamcatchers are hung over a cradle or bed as protection. … According to American Indian tradition, dream catchers should resemble a spider web and are to be placed above a baby’s cradle.
It means something to us, it’s a tradition,” said Benjamin, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Is it disrespectful to make a dreamcatcher? Protective fetishes (objects believed to have special powers) appear in numerous indigenous cultures, but the dream catcher typically associated with Native Americans originated in the Ojibwe (Chippewa) culture.
