NEO hopes to lure vice president’s wife with dream catchers

Author:
ICT Staff
Updated:
Sep 12, 2018
Original:
Jun 24, 2009

Jill Biden is the stuff of dreams. The wife of Vice President Joe Biden will soon receive about 100 dream catchers, with the idea being to lure her to speak at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami. Students, staff members and faculty have been building the dream catchers, which are a traditional American Indian craft made of willow and sinew.

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