Dances With Wolves: Chapter Summary: Dances With Wolves

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Dances with Wolves Summary
“Dances with Wolves” is a movie that seeks to deliver a message of the need for cultural diversity. The story follows the main character Lt. John James Dunbar, played by Kevin Costner, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the barely touched western frontiers that house the Sioux people. Once Dunbar arrives at his post, Ft. Sedgewick, he sets out to find his place in his new home. However, due to two plot moving events, the suicide of the officer who dispatched Dunbar to Fort Sedgewick and the murder of the coach driver who took him there, no one else is alive that holds knowledge of Dunbar’s placement.
Dunbar eventually encounters the “infamous savages”, the Sioux, who are just as curious about him as he is them. Over time a rapport is built between the people and Dunbar which culminated in their allowing him entry into their tribe. This pleased Dunbar due to …show more content…

Why do you think Dunbar requested to be posted on the frontier?
There is something special about being first, about going somewhere or doing something that no one else has. He specifically states wanting to see the frontier before it is gone so I am inclined to believe he has an adventurous spirit akin to the famed Lewis and Clark who not so long before this time period trekked across the same area.
2. The movie portrays Indian aggression after whites misuse natural resources. Was this type of interaction common?
To the Native Americans, the misuse of natural resources caused a disruption in the natural order of the environment. They lived in harmony with nature treating it with the mutual respect that it deserved. After all, abusing the land and wildlife could cause lasting repercussions that would be detrimental to their existence as a people. That their attack was directed at whites is purely arbitrary. The Sioux also executed an attack against the Pawnee who also threatened their way of life, simply in a different

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