Dances with Wolves

A detailed Summary of Dances with Wolves

The movie, Dances With Wolves starts off about a soldier in the U.S. Union who runs away from a military hospital because his foot was about to be amputated. This story takes place around the time of the Oregon Trail. I'm not actually sure but I believe that at one point he tried to kill himself by riding his horse through a battlefield. Because he survived, he was granted the choice of picking his own post. He stated that he wanted to have a post in the frontier because he wanted to see it before it was gone. In other words, he wanted to see it before the other white men turned it into houses and markets etc. In order to get to his post, he had to travel with a peasant that was going that way. On the way, Lt. Jon Jay Dunbar saw an abandoned post and decided to stay there. In later days, Indians eventually killed the peasant. The Lt. was the only white person there at the time. He entertained himself by writing in his journal daily and talking to his horse. He also had a wolf friend who kept coming around every once and a while who he named two socks. He named it that because it had two white patches that covered its two front feet. The land looked plain and was only filled with acre upon acre of grass fields. There

were no buffalo any where in sight. As the days went by, he was encountered by about four Indians who lived in a village not to far from his post. One of them started to charge at the Lt., but stopped when he pulled out a gun. The Indian seemed as if he was not scared of him at all.

Each day they began to make more and more progress in communicating with one another. Kicking Bird realizes that the woman that the Lt. saved is white and should know the English language. They call her Stands With A Fist. At first she is reluctant to be the translator but then she later agrees to the plan. This has made it easier to communicate with one another and find out more about each other's culture. Later on at night, there was a loud rumbling sound almost as if an earthquake was happening. Lt. Dunbar went out to investigate and saw hundreds of buffalo stampeding through the land. By daylight, he hurries to the village to report the good news of seeing the buffalo. The village sets out to clarify the sighting. When they got there, they found a lot of buffalo that had been slaughtered and killed. After seeing wagon tracks, they new it was white settlers passing through. They eventually found the whole herd of live buffalo and hunted it down to have food. That evening, the tribe invited the Lt. to stay night in a celebration. Meanwhile, Stands With A Fist and Lt. Dunbar have grown quite fondly of each other and began to establish a relationship. The tribe now considers him one of them.

When he awoke, the men surrounded him and asked him who he was and where he came from. They demanded that he show them where the Indians were or they would kill him. He still refused. When the soldiers where on there way th

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Approximate Word count = 1165
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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