Anishinaabe Dreamcatcher

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Dream catcher tattoos with wolf are pretty badass and they look so cool, but how do you go about getting the right ink done on yourself.

A Symbolic and Historical View of Dream Catcher Meaning We can thank the Anishinaabe for the original dream catcher meaning. Also known as the Ojibwe, the Anishinaabe are one of the First Nations of Canada. These are amazingly resourceful and vibrant people who established impressive traditionsincluding powerful symbolic connection with Nature. An ancient chippewa tradition, The Chippewa (Ojibwa) believe that night is full of both good and bad dreams. The Dream Catcher has been made for many generat.

Well we scoured the internet to find some of the coolest dreamcatcher tattoos with a wolf designs and also went ahead to get some of the teachings of the dreamcatcher and teachings about the wolf for you to get that foundational knowledge before you get a cool tattoo.

The Meaning of the Dreamcatcher

We can all kind of get an idea of what a dreamcatcher is by the name. From the name itself we know that the dreamcatcher was suppose to catch bad dreams from coming to you while you are sleeping and act like a filter for bad energy to yourself.

Native American are very spiritual and get a lot of meaning and teachings from the land and animals. Spiritual vision quests are very common in many of the different nations across Turtle Island. Crazy Horse is a famous Lakota person who had such visions in his dreams that kept him safe during battle because of the interpretation of his dream.

Anishinaabe Dreamcatcher

It’s great to get into knowing the proper meaning of things before anyone get’s a tattoo or starts making them so they don’t get into the area of culture appropriation. With that said, let’s get into the teachings.

The Dreamcatcher and the Ojibwe People | dream catcher wolf tattoo designs

The dreamcatcher is said to have originated from the Ojibwe people of Eastern Canada and United States. The most populated area of Ojibwe people are in areas such as Saskatchewan, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

The Ojibwe come from the Anishinaabe people which makes up 4 different tribes such as the Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and thee Chippewa peoples.

The Ojibwe were known for their birchbark canoes, Birchbark scrolls, mining and trading copper, and even cultivating rice and maple syrup.

The Ojibwe Legend of Spiderwoman

Many Native American people have legends and stories. The way teaching were passed down wasn’t through books like they do in schools today, but more through stories and teachings passed down orally and through action.

One such legend was that of the Spider woman.

She was a high spirit for the Ojibwe people that watched over the people and helped with bringing the Sun spirit back to the people. When the people spread out to the 4 corners of the world, Spider Woman had found it difficult to reach all the people.

So what the woman did within the tribes was weave webs using sinew from animals they hunted and willow hoops.

The people saw this as a filter of bad energy which only allowed good energy to come in while we sleep.

The shape of the dreamcatcher is a circle. In Native American culture, the circle represents so much things and can be attributed to the medicine wheel, the drum, the base of a tipi, the circle of life, the circle of seasons, the sun, moon, and earth.

For the Ojibwe people the dreamcatcher shape represented how the sun travelled over the skies. There would be a small circle left in the middle of the dreamcatcher and that is where the good dreams can come and enter.

Some people would place a feather near the centre of the dreamcatcher which would represent the freshness of air. When the babies saw the feather dancing on the dreamcatcher from the wind, it would act as some sort of entertainment for the children in the cradleboards.

When gemstones were placed within the dreamcatcher it would represent the Great Spirit, the creator of all things within dreamcatcher.

Originally when creating the dreamcatcher there would be eight points of connection to represent the eight legs of a spider. Then you would continue to weave your way through it all until you had a complete dreamcatcher to use for yourself and your family.

Nowadays dreamcatchers have become mainstream and people have them as tattoos, hanging as vehicle ornaments, people buy them as keychains, make them as crafting projects and more.

It’s important to understand the meanings before anyone goes out and gets a dream catcher wolf tattoo without fully understanding the stories.

The Story of the Wolf and it’s Meaning | Dream Catcher Tattoos With Wolf

In the Ojibwe language, the word they use for wolf is “Ma’iingan – The one put here by that All Loving Spirit to show us the way.”

The wolf has a high spot when it comes to Native American people, and especially the Ojibwe people. For them, the wolf was pretty much apart of the family, being referred often as a brother or sister of the tribe’s family.

They were also a great symbol to the people. They represented courage, strength, loyalty, and success at hunting in how well they worked together and accomplished goals as a team.

When the world started, the wolf was put here to help people, You can think of it almost like dogs today. The wolf is a partner to man.

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Long ago animals and humans were able to communicate with each other and one of the wisest of the animals was the Wolf. The wolf use to mentor the people and teach them how to conduct themselves in social settings as well as when they were hunting.

The Wolves separate themselves into Wolf Packs and this is a system that many Native American people do till this day is that families can belong to an animal clan and take on certain responsibilities for the tribes that work to benefit everyone within the community.

As you can see there are many teachings just from the Wolf and the dreamcatcher. It can help you carry on a good way of life and how you treat other people in a good way.

Creating Your Dream catcher Tattoos With Wolf Meaning of them Both Together

When you put these two symbols together you have a great mix of great things. You have the dreamcatcher that blocks out bad energy and only allows for good energy and good dreams to come in which is protected by the Spider Woman spirit and also has the Sun being represented as well.

Then you have the Wolf which shares its story of being a protector and creating law and order for yourself and your community. It’s a reminder that nothing should be done selfishly but for the greater good of your tribe, clan, or community.

We must give thanks to the Ojibwe people for their creation of the Dreamcatcher and the Native American people for the great relationship between the animals and respect for everything on this land.

- Kyla Jardin

Cultural exchange is a core component of the program at UVic's English Language Centre. A simple request for 'something more'—suggested by the Department of Education in the state of Veracruz, Mexico—created what has become an invaluable opportunity for Indigenous-international collaboration and dynamic learning at UVic.

The UVic English Language Centre (ELC) is entering its fourth year of collaboration with COVEICyDET, a government branch of education in the Mexican state of Veracruz on the southwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Thirty COVEICyDET students in four years

COVEICyDET supports projects focusing on scientific inquiry and technological advances. Each year, the program helps women from Indigenous communities who are preparing to enter a master’s degree program by sponsoring their language studies abroad.

Since 2016, the ELC at UVic has welcomed a total of 30 students through this transformative learning opportunity.

Enhancing the international student experience

Last September, when the (former) head of COVEICyDET’s division of technology, Godofredo Gonzalez, was preparing a new group of students to study at the ELC, he inquired about enhancing the experience of these students while they visited UVic.

Godofredo himself had visited UVic with previous program participants, so he already had a strong sense of UVic’s resourceful cultural and academic community. But for many of the scholarship students from Mexico, it would be their first time travelling internationally, and Godofredo was keen to maximize their experience at our university.

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When Godofredo asked, 'What else can these women do at UVic?' sparks flew in my mind. The Division of Continuing Studies' leadership in Indigenous programming combined with the objectives for community engagement expressed in UVic’s Indigenous Plan (2017-2022) and International Plan (2017-2022) made it clear that we were in a position to collaborate with campus colleagues to offer a very special complement to the intensive English program these students would be attending.
—International Recruitment Coordinator Kyla Jardin, the ELC’s primary liaison with COVEICyDET

After a few phone calls, the international education department in UVic’s Division of Continuing Studies took the lead on program enhancements and worked with Carmen Rodriguez de France—an Indigenous education specialist at UVic who is originally from Monterrey, Mexico—to facilitate an arts-based workshop for the COVEICyDET group, exploring the history between Indigenous people of this region and the university.

Finding commonalities and differences in art

Rodriguez de France, an assistant professor in UVic’s Department of Indigenous Education, describes the impact of her experience facilitating workshops with this group during their four weeks of studying on campus.

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As part of their activities, I led an arts-based tour of UVic where they learned about traditional and contemporary Indigenous artists while visiting various places on campus. The women were able to appreciate commonalities and differences between Indigenous art from Mexico and Canada in art forms and expressions but as significantly, we discussed the importance of having Indigenous people represented and present on campus as a demonstration of our shared responsibility to building better futures.
—UVic Assistant Professor Carmen Rodriguez de France, who organized the arts-based tour

Sharing meaning of the Anishinaabe dreamcatcher

Following the tour, another impactful point of engagement at UVic was a two-hour experiential workshop at First Peoples House. This workshop was facilitated by Kirsten Mikkelsen, a program coordinator for the Foundations of Indigenous Fine Arts (FIFA) and Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization Certificate (CALR) offered by UVic’s Department of Linguistics and the Division of Continuing Studies in partnership with the En’owkin Centre.

During the workshop, it was wonderful to work in collaboration with the women from COVEICyDET sharing meaning of the Anishinaabe dreamcatcher, which comes from my lineage and people, while Hector Vazquez translated and the women engaged in creating dreamcatcher to bring home with them. Further critical discussion incurred around the impact of globalization, commercialization of Indigenous ways of knowing and arts through decolonizing interchanges. There was also much good spirited laughter as everyone engaged in this international collaborative Indigenous resurgent workshop.
—Kirsten Mikkelsen, a program coordinator in UVic’s Division of Continuing Studies who organized the workshop at First Peoples House

A visit to the museum led by a UVic alumna

Off campus, the COVEICyDET group visited the Royal BC Museum where Lucy Bell, Sdaahl Ḵ’awaas, a member of the Haida Nation—now the head of the museum’s First Nations Department and Repatriation Program, a UVic graduate (Indigenous Education) and a 2018 UVic Distinguished alumna—guided the COVEICyDET students through the Living Languages Exhibit and facilitated an Indigenous language revitalization workshop.

A Mexican PhD student from UVic, Hector Vazquez, provided translation for the group during the museum visit.

Anishinaabe Dreamcatcher Meaning

He noted a strong cultural connection and impact felt among the participants.

During our tour of the First Nations section of the museum, it was interesting that they shared their experiences about different objects that they saw, saying that some of them were really similar to objects that they have seen back home. At the end of the tour I had the chance to talk with some of them, and they all agreed that to attend UVic was a very significant experience in their lives. One of the most important ideas that they shared was that they have the chance to meet people from different countries and cultures.
—Hector Vazquez, UVic PhD student from Mexico

By adding an Indigenous dimension to the existing ELC program, COVEICyDET is another exciting example of vital impact, creative and collaborative programming, and community engagement at UVic.

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People: Godofredo Gonzalez, Kyla Jardin, Carmen Rodriguez de France, Kirsten Mikkelsen, Hector Vazquez