Dream Catchers Views

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While dream catchers originated in the Ojibwa Nation, during the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s they were adopted by Native Americans of a number of different nations. Some consider the dream catcher a symbol of unity among the various Indian Nations, and a general symbol of identification with Native American or First Nations cultures. However, other Native Americans have come to see dream catchers as over-commercialized.[3] Non-Indians have also used the dreamcatcher for their own purposes, sometimes New Age in nature.

Traditionally, the Ojibwa construct dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame of willow (in a way roughly similar to their method for making snowshoe webbing). The resulting dream-catcher , hung above the bed, is used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. As dreamcatchers are made of willow and sinew, they are not meant to last forever but are intended to dry out and collapse as the child enters the age of wonderment.[citation needed]

In the course of becoming popular outside of the Ojibwa Nation, and then outside of the pan-Indian communities, dreamcatchers are now made, exhibited, and sold by some New age groups and individuals. According to Philip Jenkins, this is considered by most traditional Native peoples and their supporters to be an undesirable form of cultural appropriation.[5]

The Dream Catchers (Simplified Chinese: 未来不是梦) is a Singaporean Chinese modern romance drama, which is currently telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air chinese language channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 4 February 2009 and ends its run on 3 March 2009. It is screened at 2100 hrs every weekday night. The serial consists of 20 episodes.