"In the 1990 Oscar winning film ""Dances with wolves"", John Dunbar befriends Indians calling themselves Lakota. To which tribe of plains Indians did Lakota belong?"
Dances with Wolves (novel) Wolves. In the film this is changed to a band of Lakota Sioux. The novel and film later came under criticism for their similarity to Elliot Silverstein's "A Man Called Horse". Dances with Wolves (novel) Dances with Wolves is a 1988 novel written by Michael Blake. It was written as a possible source for a screenplay, and was later adapted by the author, and was produced as a film of the same name in 1990 by Kevin Costner, although there were many differences between the novel and film. The novel is set during the American Civil War. The protagonist of
Dances with Wolves Dances with Wolves Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed and produced by Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake that tells the story of Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner) who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and of his dealings with a group of Lakota Indians. Costner developed the film with an initial budget of $15 million. "Dances with Wolves" had high production values. Much of the dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles. It was