![]() Army will now use him as an excuse to find and either imprison or kill all Native Americans. Once again reunited with Stands With A Fist, Dunbar realizes that the U.S. While the military transports Dunbar back East for trial, Dunbar’s Sioux brothers kill his captors. They arrest him, and charge him as a traitor when he refuses to help the army hunt down the Sioux people. The occupying soldiers believe Dunbar is an Indian due to his Sioux clothing and open fire, killing Dunbar’s horse, Cisco. The former soldier heads back to the fort to find it reoccupied by the U.S. Dunbar decides to accompany his adoptive tribe, but realizes that his journal, which he left at Fort Sedgwick, will act as a map for the Union army to find the Sioux. The Pawnee attack, but the Sioux easily defeat the over powered attackers with their superior fire power.Īfter the successful defense of the camp, Chief Ten Bears decides to move the tribe to its winter camp because of the growing Pawnee and the encroaching threat of the white army. When the Pawnee approach the barely protected camp, Dunbar retrieves the rifles from Fort Sedgwick to give the Sioux an advantage over Pawnee. The warriors, including Kicking Bird and Wind In His Hair, form a war party to attack the Pawnee, leaving Dunbar and a handful of men to protect the women and children of the tribe. While living with the Sioux, the tribe faces a threat from the hostile Pawnee. The couple eventually marry, and Dunbar abandons his post at Fort Sedgwick and begins living fulltime with the Sioux. When the Sioux see Dunbar chasing Two Socks on the plain one day, they give him the name Dances With Wolves.ĭunbar begins a romantic relationship with Stands With A Fist, which the tribe accepts since they are both white. In addition to befriending the Sioux, Dunbar also befriends a wolf that he playfully names Two Socks for its white forepaws. He tells them of a migrating herd of buffalo, and they all participate in a hunt which feeds the tribe for many months. Dunbar learns the Sioux language, and they accept him as an honored guest by the Sioux. He begins to develop a respect and appreciation for the Sioux lifestyle and customs. With the assistance of the Sioux widow, the pair finally are able to exchange in a fruitful dialogue.ĭunbar discovers that his knowledge of Native Americans is categorically untrue. So, the medicine man enlists Stands With A Fist to act as an interpreter. However, the language barrier frustrates Kicking Bird and Dunbar. Eventually, the Sioux allow him to visit their camp. They hope to learn more about the encroaching white men.ĭunbar establishes a rapport with Kicking Bird and the warrior, Wind In His Hair. Chief Ten Bears and the tribe’s medicine man, Kicking Bird, engage in a dialogue with Dunbar rather than kill him. Dunbar takes the wounded woman back to the Sioux camp, which garners him respect with many in the tribe. Shockingly, Dunbar discovers the female is a white woman with the name Stands With A Fist. ![]() While scouting, he encounters what he believes is an Indian female under a tree attempting suicide. Attempting to put on a good impression, Dunbar goes to seek out the Sioux camp itself. Meanwhile, Pawnee Indians scalp Timmons on his way back to Fort Hays eliminating the knowledge that Dunbar is at the fort.īack at the fort, Dunbar maintains the post, and Sioux Indians visit him more for his horse than for him. Dunbar decides to stay alone at the fort and orders Timmons at gun point to unload the fort’s provisions.Īfter Timmons leaves, Dunbar begins to repair and rebuild the fort. The duo travel to Sedgwick only to find it deserted and in extremely poor condition. Dunbar travels to Sedgwick with the flatulent Timmons, the man commissioned to supply the Fort with his mule wagon. He sends Dunbar to the army’s furthest post, Fort Sedgwick. Dunbar reports to commanding officer, who is a mentally ill and suicidal major. Next, we see Dunbar riding up to Fort Hays, a large fort on the edge of the frontier. Dunbar decides his next assignment is on the western frontier “before it is gone.” He saves Dunbar’s leg, and decorates Dunbar for bravery that helped win the day for the Union. The union general finds Dunbar’s nearly unconscious body, sans any new bullet holes, and calls for his personal doctor. They get the upper hand in the Civil War stalemate. Dunbar’s distraction allows the Union soldiers to overtake the Confederate sentry lines. ![]() He takes a horse and rides up to and alongside the Confederates front lines, daring them to end his life. However, Dunbar would rather die than lose his leg. The surgeon wants to amputate Dunbar’s leg. Lieutenant John J Dunbar lies on surgeon’s table from a wounded leg he received during an American Civil War battle.
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