Dream-catcher, a native symbol

History
A dream-catcher is an original object of the people ojibwa (one of the native peoples of North America). It is composed by a circular hoop on which a network is woven in the shape of spiderweb and is in the habit of decorating by pens and accounts. Some people, grant magic properties related to the dreams to him like amulet. Also there is called he a hunter of dreams. In language ojibwa it is called asabikeshiinh (spider) or bawaajige nagwaagan (trap or bough of dreams).
Properties
 For the ojibwa, an dream-catcher is capable of leaking the dreams stopping to spend only the positive dreams, staying the bad dreams caught in the network and disappearing when it dawns.
For the people lakota or lakhota (of the tribe Sioux), the dream-catcher works on the contrary, that is to say, the nightmares happen across the network and the good dreams remain caught in the network and slip for the pens up to the person who is sleeping below. 
Meanings
In some occasions, there are persons who grant a different meaning to him, giving him the value to help to obtain what one proposes, interpreting the word 'dreams', with the meaning 'aspiration' and ' longings'. Dream-catcher have become popular in many places and there appear variants like earrings or necklaces. Inside the world of the tattooes, as multitude of ethnic elements, also they are represented dream-catcher in tattooes, though it is not of the most common. The motives for which a person carries out a tattoo of a dream-catcher are diverse. It can symbolize protection.