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.
