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DREAM WEAVER is a Native American romantic comedy in which a two feuding members from neighboring Tribes are able to form a lasting peace which effect the destinies of their descendants as well as their Reservations.

The story begins with two feuding Tribal members, Monroe from the fictitious Northern Kaiute Tribe, and Weldon from the Southern Kaiute Tribe. The rivalry between these two Tribes found its roots centuries ago, when two feuding families took sides, leading to the permanent division of the Kaiute people. Monroe and Weldon epitomize the lack of neighborly love evident in their dispositions. From their youth, they have been fighting. Weldon resents Monroe because he is not a full-blooded Indian, and because he is the son of a wealthy, white father. Monroe resents Weldon because he maintains a self-righteous attitude concerning anything Indian, refusing to acknowledge some of the disfunctional problems existing on Reservations.

The rivalry between Monroe and Weldon comes to a dramatic head, after a Southern Kaiute Tribal Council meeting in which Monroe is trying to obtain their scenic lands for a dirt cheap price. Monroe and Weldon, upon leaving the Council meeting, carry their comic anger too far as they drive home to their adjacent Reservations, mutually causing a road accident which costs both of them their lives.

Monroe and Weldon are brought to stand before a Council of their Spirit Elders, who review their case, and determine that these two men are not prepared to walk the Eternal Hoop in the brotherhood of their ancestors. Monroe and Weldon are -denied entrance to the world beyond and are banished to Earth, bound wrist to wrist. They are condemned to remain in this condition until two of their descendants marry and form a lasting intertribal peace between the Northern and Southern Kaiute Tribes. Pleading the impossibility of their sentence, Monroe and Weldon are granted a limited power of touch, to aid them in their quest, and to give them something in common.

Banished to Earth, Monroe and Weldon immediately go about contacting their descendants, to determine their eligibility for marriage. To their dismay, they discover that only one Granddaughter of Monroe's and two Grandsons of Weldon are available. In the struggle to make a match and obtain their spiritual freedom, Monroe and Weldon misuse the power of touch in an attempt to force a marriage to take place. The results are both comical and tragic at the same time, as Monroe and Weldon must make a decision between saving their own selfish souls as opposed doing what's right for their families.

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