DREAMKEEPER

Had a few friends round to watch this film last night. Have seen it several times now. It's a great telling of some Native American stories in film form. And with a back-story of a road trip to the pow-wow by the grandfather-storyteller and his angry young grandson. The stories, the grandfather says, preserve the dream of the people.

One of my favourite moments is when they pick up a hitch hiker, a young white New-Ager who wants an Indian name. The grandson despises him as a 'wannabe' but the grandfather says no, he 'wannabe connected'. And he says to the grandson it wasn't these guys who drove us off our land, it was their forefathers. Being open to that longing in people that wants to do something, become something, seems so important to me, otherwise what are we doing? And it's so easy to tread on it if we are full of ideas about what is 'authentic' shamanism and what isn't. It doesn't matter, it's that other thing that matters.

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