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Dances With Wolves begins with the star, Kevin Costner, playing Lt John Dunbar , a wounded Union soldier being told that his injured leg must be amputated. After starting off on what seems to be a suicidal ride on his horse, Kevin almost accidentally leads his troops to the battlefield where they obtain victory over the Confederates. Dunbar is rewarded with medical care and the choice for his next post for helping out the troops. He chooses one on the Western Frontier, upon reaching his new post he comes to realize the last two men that were at that post died, and he will be alone.
Dunbar has his horse and a wild wolf to keep him company. He later starts to organize his camp when he has his first encounter with the Lakota Sioux and they try to take his horse. In attempt to communicate with the Indians Dunbar in turn makes friends. He first enters the Indians camp after he saves a white woman who was adopted by the Sioux at a young age. She later becomes the translator for the two. After spending little time at his fort anymore and more time with the natives, and the white women with whom he begins to fall in love with, his fellow soldiers start to assume him a traitor and track him down.
Dances With Wolves shows the different views of the plains landscape, the damaging influences of white settlement against the beauty of the landscape, the battle between the white abuse of natural resources and the Sioux living within them. Also the extreme violence of war against the loving and family orientated Sioux.