The Dreamcatcher: a dreamcatcher is a woven hoop, decorated with beads and feathers and you will find them in most Native cultures. The dreamcatchers were made for the children. Parents would suspend them over the young ones beds at night. The story goes, that all dreams would pass through the woven hoop, and it would catch all the bad dreams, so that a child would not have nightmares. The dreamcatcher couldn't prevent the nightmare that the Cherokee suffered in 1838, however - when Jackson's troops gathered the Cherokee off their land in the Carolinas and Georgia and forced them to Oklahoma. The infamous Trail of Tears, or in Cherokee "Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi," Trail where they cried. The trip took 2 years and cost the Cherokee Nation many many lives. I will say, that what ever spirits watched over my ancestors and saved them from that horror, I feel that they watch over us still, and for that, I am most grateful.