Stories of the frontier and Indian history have become popular topics of art, literature, music, and motion pictures. Most of these movies involving Indians portray them as a race of ignorant, thieving savages, who initiate the fighting, and deserve to be killed. Dances With Wolves manages to avoid this stereotype by humanizing Native Americans by the way they portrayed the tribe as real people with true emotions.
Dances With Wolves is about how a Union soldier in the Civil War, Lt. John J. Dunbar, performs a bizarre, near-suicidal act, which earns him an award for heroism, a horse, and his choice of a new post. He selects a remote Western fort because he feels it is his last chance to see the frontier before it disappears. When he
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