Dances With Wolves

Dances with wolves takes place in the 1860´s of Colorado. However, the film was shot in North Dakota.

It is clearly seen that there was gendered division of labor in the film as the men focused much on animal hunting and war fighting whereas the women focused on raising the children, cooking or to do the house chores. Soon after Dunbar told the Sioux about the discovery of migrating herd of buffalos, the Sioux shifted the entire tribe nearer to the location of the buffalos and celebrated for their upcoming hunt by gathering around the campfire and dance along with each other. Also, we can see that the Sioux tribe practices barter system when Dunbar traded his military uniform and hat for the Sioux’s traditional clothing and accessories. As the story progresses, when Kicking Bird saw how Dunbar and the wolf were chasing each other in the field, he then suggested and named Dunbar as ‘Dances With Wolves’, officially acknowledging him as one of the Sioux tribe members. Later on, Dunbar and Stands With A Fist eventually fell in love with each other and when they were getting married after Kicking Bird released her mourning, Dunbar realized how generous the entire Sioux tribe was to him, offering him the most valuable thing they could afford, as it’s one of the traditions that Sioux practices.

When John Dunbar goes out to find the Lakota Sioux, but he first stumbles upon Stands with a Fist. When he sees that her arms are bleeding; his immediate reaction was to use his U.S. flag, something that he carries with pride, as a tourniquet. This shows the audience that Dunbar is an ardent person and is willing to help another at his own cost. At one point in the film Dunbar finds himself not wanting to sleep at eh tribes’ camp, but not wanting to be an American soldier. When the Lakota Sioux attacks their rivals, the Pawnee, Dunbar claims to a sense of pride. Dances with Wolves remembers his journal that he kept when he was living at Fort Sedgwick, and rides Cisco back to retrieve it; he is captured by the Army and is interrogated for information about the tribes in the area. Dances with Wolves’ transition is complete when he refuses to cooperate with the Army and is sent

The guys did whatever the Indians asked them to until the seventh day. It was in the middle of the night and everybody was asleep except Daniel. He woke John Stewart and they snuck out of the Indians sight very quickly in hopes of finding their old campsite. They finally came upon there old camp and found that everybody was gone home.

In his journey across the landscape of Mexico, John’s character in the novel begins to transform. He is beginning to move away from that boyish and naive kind of behavior and more towards the middle stage of between being a boy and a man; adolescence. McCarthy spends a great deal in describing John’s adolescent’s stage in this novel. Much of the time that McCarthy describes in this stage is when they are out on the prairie with the horses connecting with nature. This connection allows John to have and a clearer understanding that there is a divine line between men and horses and that you can’t apply the same characteristics that you would apply to a horse to a man.

In the beginning of the story, John is trapped inside the cave with the rest of his village. The cave prevents people from seeing the truth of their worlds in both stories. Their society “In by the Waters of Babylon,” has very strict rules. They can’t go to the east, go to the Dead Places, or go across the Great River, “These things are forbidden- they have been forbidden since the beginning of time,” John says (Benet, 109).

The film Dances With Wolves focuses mainly on one man named Jon Dunbar and his growing relationship

Everyone has a preconceived opinion of how a certain ethnic group is in terms of the way they live, the morals they hold, the way they deal with people different from them, and how they deal with one another. We come to these conclusions by what we have seen in the media, heard from other people, or actually experienced ourselves. Most people would consider these opinions to be stereotypes. Dances with Wolves is a motion picture that deals with and touches on all sides of personal stereotypes we as American and American Indians have about each other. John Dunbar takes us through and allows us to see how it is to come into a situation he was not familiar with and then eventually the

Dances with Wolves and Avatar are thought to be very different, but they are actually more similar than viewers may realize. First off, these are two must see films! The viewer walks away with much more than just having seen a movie. Both of these movies encourage cultural understanding, motivate, and teach individuality.

Now risking his life to keep his new family safe from the oncoming army. Since john Dunbar sacrifices everything he has to protect the Sioux tribe from being decimated, john Dunbar is a hero.

The Native American culture is something that is cherished by their people. “Perhaps no other group of people has quite the rich and storied culture as those of the Native Americans. They have a history rich in struggle, strife, and triumph (Native American Culture).” Dances with Wolves, directed by Kevin Costner in 1990, is about a white man who becomes interested in the Native American culture and decides to befriend fellow an Indian tribe (Dances with Wolves). The Searchers by John Ford in 1956 is about a white man who is on a journey to find his niece who was kidnapped by an Indian tribe (The Searchers). These films do have a few differences but many similarities. Dances with Wolves and

The tribe was about to move to the woods for the winter. Dances with wolves had to go back to the post and get his journey he was writing everything in about him and the Indians, for if soldiers would find it, it would not be to good. He arrived back and the place was loaded with soldiers, and they shot at him like he was an Indian. He managed to survive, but he could not prove he was a Lt. In the army and was being arrested for treason.

At the fort one night John her a bunch of noise and went out and saw that there was a bunch of buffalo. He went and told the Indians and they we on a journey together. At first the group came across a bunch of dead buffalo and all that was taken from the buffalo was the skin and John knew who took it. He realized how this made him look and he finally realized that it was possible to use just about everything of the buffalo. He finished off the trip with the indians hunting buffalo. This was important in the movie because John finally seen the difference between the two cultures. The indians appreciated the buffalo and what the indians got from them. The American’s didn’t care about anything but the

Dancing with Wolves is a movie that will surely intrigue and captivate its audience. This film can be incorporated into any Economy class of any grade level. The Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) state that “students are expected to explain how supply and demand affects consumers in the United States and identify basic human needs of food, clothing, and shelter.” From this film, students can learn much about supply and demand, how this two concepts interrelate to each other, and the impact that this two concepts have on the economy of a culture. The film can also be used to show students how the Sioux Indians used the furry buffalo to cover their three basic needs (e.g., food, clothing, and shelter).

Lieutenant. John Dunbar (Costner), was about to have his foot cut of/ amputated in a Union field hospital in Tennessee, runs away in and rides in a suicidal dash toward Confederate lines, accidentally leading a charge and becoming a well known hero. He was sent to North Dakota. The remote Western outpost turns out to be deserted, but he makes a friend of a lonely wolf he names "Two-Socks," and gradually gets to know the only tribe called, Sioux tribe, who eventually accepts him and names him "Dances with Wolves." One of the members of the sioux tribe is a white woman, (McDonnell) who was taken in and raised by the Sioux after her parents were killed by the Pawnee. She and Dunbar gradually fall in love, and as the white settlers and Army move