Dances With Wolves is the story of the “transformation” of Lieutenant John

Dunbar, a Union Army Officer, to Dances With Wolves, a Lakota warrior. The film is

seen from the viewpoint of Dunbar, who runs away from a field hospital as his foot is

about to be amputated and literally invites death by riding his horse by in a suicidal

charge at the Confederate lines. He does this to provide a diversion so that a group of

Union soldiers can overrun an entrenched Rebel position. Miraculously, he survives and

is decorated and given his choice of any posting. John Dunbar chooses the frontier.

Dunbar begins a new life in a remote, isolated outpost, Fort Sedgewick, in the wilderness

of the Dakota territory where he is the only white man around for miles. A month into his

stay, with only a wolf, Two Socks and his mount, Cisco, for company, Dunbar

encounters the local Sioux tribe. There is mutual distrust at first but slowly and with

Stands With A Fist (a white woman, who as a girl came to live with the Sioux after her

family was killed by enemy Indians) acting as an interpreter,

food and material culture. With John Dunbar, we encounter a complex culture, remarkably adapted to the

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