Kevin Costner’s 1990 directorial debut “Dances with Wolves” proved to be the highlight of his long and illustrious career. The film, also produced and starred by Costner, won 7 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay for Michael Blake’s adaptation of his own 1988 novel. It tells the tale of First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner) who, after distinguishing himself in the Civil War gets to choose his next post. A fan of nature and solitude, he chooses the western frontier. He arrives to his awarded post, Fort Sedgwick, but finds it abandoned. Due to a set of circumstances no other soldiers arrive to the camp, but Dunbar starts rebuilding the fort. Dunbar encounters the members of the neighboring Sioux tribe who keep trying to steal his horse and engage him in open combat. He tries to seek them out and meets Stands With A Fist, the white adopted daughter of the Sioux medicine man Kicking Bird. He prevents her from committing suicide out of mourning for her dead husband, ad takes her back to her tribe. He befriends the Sioux and eventually learns the language and starts living with them. When the tribe plans to move to its winter camp, Dunbar hoes to the fort to retrieve his journal, and finds it reoccupied by the US Army troops. They arrest him for treason and send him back East, but the Sioux attack Dunbar’s escort and free him. Dunbar and Stands With A Fist leave the Sioux because Dunbar fears his presence will put them in danger.
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