Entertaining but, historically, a total disaster - Dances With Wolves Reviews

The movie was entertaining because of the scenery, the animals, and the fantasy world of indian life......but!!!!! In spite of the fact that Kevin Costner did a good job of learning to speak a very difficult language, that is where the reality stopped. 1.) Ten Bears was the chief of the Camanche tribe not the Souix....terrible mistake! 2.) The Souix were not the peace loving, fun loving, family nuturing, clean cut people this movie made them out to be. They were blood thirsty savages who beat their women, made war at the drop of a feather....with anyone who happened to be around, and were stoic at best. Make no mistake....the western american indians were treated very poorly because the whites repeatedly took advantage of them. But......it wasn't their land, they roved from place to place looking for people to kill. They were very stupid, they could not organize their own people long enough to create an organized fight against the whites......if the indians, who all supposedly valued the same simple pleasures of life, had banded together they could have defeated any number of whites. Maybe this movie was an attempt to "fix" all the injustices all by itself!