DREAMING –THE APPROACH OF THE SACRED FOR THE LAKOTA PEOPLE IN WEIDEN’S WINTER COUNTS
DREAMING –THE APPROACH OF THE SACRED FOR THE LAKOTA PEOPLE IN WEIDEN’S WINTER COUNTS

Summary/Abstract: The present study analyzes dreaming as the approach of the sacred in David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s novel entitled ”Winter Counts”. For the Native Americans, dreams represent a medium that connects people with the spiritual realm especially if there is an animal or bird communicating with the person. The novel lays emphasis upon the importance of dreams and dreaming for the Lakota people through the protagonist Virgil Wounded Horse who no longer believed in the values of his tribe due to the losses in his family: his father, mother and his sister, Sybil. He lives with his nephew, Nathan, Sybil’s son, a highschool teenager. Throughout the novel, both Virgil and Nathan are caught in the middle of two rival gangs who sell drugs on the reservation they live.

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