The Ojibwe Dreamcatcher

By: Linda LeGarde Grover, Bois Forte Ojibwe

Narrated by: Keke Palmer

Length: 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Film and TV star Keke Palmer tenderly shares the Ojibwe folk tale of the first dreamcatcher and shows how its message of our connection to the natural world persists to this day.

Bedtime stories are narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don’t stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.

This title is part of The Audible Sleep Collection, exclusive audio experiences created to help you fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up in the right morning mindset. New and free for members.

About the author: Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is an author of fiction, poetry, research articles, newspaper columns, and essays. Her publications include The Dance Boots, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; The Road Back to Sweetgrass, which received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers Fiction Award; The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives, which received the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry; and her essay collection, Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year, which received the Minnesota Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and Memoir. Linda lives in Duluth, where she was born, and where she is currently researching intersections of traditional Ojibwe stories with regional Ojibwe history and the natural world.

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Beautiful story

A beautiful legend about the history of the dream catcher. The details are so vivid I could visualize the the story as it unfolded. Now I want an original Ojibwe dream catcher.

Origin of the "Dream Catcher"

Loved hearing how this native American legend may have begun. The story was very detailed, to help the reader imagine it. The super quiet whispering voice of the narrator, was hard to hear. Not all parts of this story needed whispering.

Wonderful voice.

Enjoyed the story and the voice was so soothing. It did the trick to help me sleep.

Keke is Amazing!

Her voice is perfect for this reading. It is extremely soothing and her voice adds an almost sensual element to the story.

It worked.

I listened to the story but can’t say much about it because I fell asleep. Keke’s voice was perfect. This was the second time I listened to it with the same intended result. I don’t think it was supposed to be a story for storytelling but it was perfect for relaxation and sleep.

Love This

I knew a few things about dream catchers because I have several in my home. This was a very informative and very interesting book.

I Wish There Were More Like This - So Relaxing!

This is the perfect bedtime story! I wish that there were more, even longer audiobooks to listen to like this one that feature Native American folklore or any culture's folklore in a peace-invoking and relaxing manner. Many books on folklore and mythology lean toward either the academic or horror/supernatural. Whereas I found this book to be so tranquil, better than most meditation books I listen to. The story of a young Ojibwe mother who brings her baby along with her for a walk into the forest and to do some basic daily chores sounds like a very simple premise, and it is, but that is what makes it so wonderful as a bedtime story. The details of the writing were fantastic.

My only complaint is that when requesting my Echo devices play this particular title, no matter how many different ways I pronounce "Ojibwe", my Alexa device keeps not understanding what I'm saying. It either tells me that "O. G. Bigwy" cannot be found but there are other titles by (insert some rap artist name), or it will simply say it cannot locate that title in my library. Even when I asked it to list my most recent titles, the Echo device pronounced it to me "Oh-jib-we" so I pronounced it exactly that way back to be played and it still could not locate it so I finally had to settle for listening to a different audiobook. This is not the fault of the writer or the narrator, but a fault within the Alexa pronunciation system, and the fact that many people do not know how to correctly pronounce "Ojibwe" without first listening to the story.

However, I can't recommend this book enough and I'm going to spend some time looking for something similar to this to relax to at night!

Great legend

What a wonderful combination of bedtime story and legend. I love it . Please make more!

it worked.

I definitely fell asleep before the ending. Enjoyed the part that I heard. I didn't think it would work but it did.

Perfect Bedtime Story

Keke’s voice is so soothing, the way she narrates is just too good. I have yet to finish the story, it knocks me out every time. But what ive heard so far has been beautiful. Definitely recommend 100%