Are you all right?
[Whooping]
[Cheering]
[Laughing And Talking]
I can't.
No. I'm--I'm-- I'm full.
And I can't tell the story anymore.
Ah!
No.
Do you want to try it?
You want to try it?
Here.
I can't. This is too much.
It's a good trade.
This is-- This is--a good trade.
No, no! I can't. I'm full. I'm tired. No!
Wa zhi.
Wa zhi?
Wa zhi.
Wa zhi?
Wa zhi.
Lieutenant!
No! No!
Ahh...
Tatanka.
Big tatanka.
Big tatanka!
[Laughter]
That's my hat!
Hey.
Hey!
You're wearing my hat.
It's my hat.
I found it on the prairie. It's mine.
No, no.
My hat.
That hat belongs to Lieutenant.
He left it on the prairie. He didn't want it.
Well, you can see he wants it now.
We all know that it's a soldier hat.
We all know who wears it.
If you want to keep it, that's all right.
But give something for it.
Washte.
Good...trade.
[Moaning]
It seems every day ends with a miracle here.
And whatever God may be, I thank God for this day.
To stay longer would have been useless.
We had all the meat we could possibly carry.
We had hunted for three days, losing six ponies
and only three men injured.
I'd never known a people so eager to laugh,
so devoted to family, so dedicated to each other.
And the only word that came to mind was harmony.
Many times I've felt alone,
but until this afternoon,
I had never felt completely lonely.
Though only two days, it seems like a week.
I am missing the company of my friends.
I can see their faces, but it isn't enough.
Tomorrow I'll pay them a visit.
After all, they are my neighbors.
What can it hurt?
Hey!
God! Go home!
Go!
Go home, Two Socks!
Bad wolf! Bad wolf!
Aaahh!
It is autumn now,
and I'm spending more time than ever with my friends.
They have given me my own lodge.
We talk every day,
But I know Kicking Bird is frustrated with me.
He wants to know how many more white people are coming.
I tell him they will most likely just pass through this country.
I am speaking in half-truths.
One day there will be too many.
I cannot tell them that.
I'm sure Stands With A Fist knows I'm holding back.
To her credit, she says nothing.
A war party is going against the Pawnee,
and I've asked to go.
I sense I made a mistake in doing so,
but I couldn't bring myself to take it back.
From what I gather,
the Pawnee have been very hard on these people.
I hope I have not overstepped my bounds.
[Rustling]
Come in, please.
Sit down?
Kicking Bird wants to know
why you want to make war on the Pawnee.
They have done nothing to you.
They are Sioux enemies.
[Speaking Lakota]
Only Sioux warriors to go.
I have been a warrior longer than many of the young men
who will go on this war party.
Tell him.
[Translating]
He said that the Sioux way of being a warrior
is not the white way.
You are not ready.
I understand.
Tell him I cannot learn these ways in camp.
He also asks that you watch over his family
while he is gone.
This thing he asks is a great honor for you.
Tell him that I... would be happy to watch over his family.
[Translating]
He thanks Dances With Wolves for coming.
Who is Dances With Wolves?
It is the name
which all the people are calling you now.
Dances With--
That's right.
That day.
Dances With Wolves.
How do you say it?
Shumanitutonka Ob Wachi.
Washte.
Shumanitutonka Ob Wachi.
Keep on with the white man talk, if it pleases you.
I like to make the talk.
Oh, I cut this off.
I shaved it off.
Oh.
Go on.
Grass grows on the prairie.
Grass grows on the prairie?
Peta ki oblaye el ti.
No. You said "Fire lives on the prairie."
I did?
No laughing, though.
How did you get your name?
I was not very old
when I came to be with the people,
and I was made to work.
I worked every day very hard.
There was a wom-- one woman
who didn't like me much.
She used to call me bad names, and sometimes she--
amapre--
Beat me?
One day, she was calling me these bad names
with her face in my face,
and I hit her.
I was not very big, but she fell down.
She fell hard and didn't move.
Then I stood over her with my fist
and asked if there was any other woman
who wanted to call me bad names.
No one bothered me after that day.
No, I-- I wouldn't think so.
Show me.
Show me where you hit her.
Why are you not married?
I'm sorry.
I have to go.
I'm sorry.
Can I help you?
No.
Some of your words are wrong, but you are learning fast.
So what can I tell you today?
I want to know about Stands With A Fist.
Why is there no man with her?
She is in mourning.
I don't underst--
I do not understand "mourning."
She cries for someone.
Cries for who?
It is not polite to speak of the dead.
But you are new, so I will tell you.
She cries for her husband.
He was killed not long ago.
That is how you came to find her on the prairie.
How long will she cry?
It is Kicking Bird's place to say when she is finished.
He's the one that found her when she was very little.
People are talking about you.
What are they saying?
They are proud of the medicine...
you are making with Dances With Wolves.
I have hurt him, and I should go talk to him.
You can't. He is gone.
He left this morning.
[Rustling]
Bet you were thinking...
now, why don't he write?
Hello, Two Socks.
Hmm?
Come on.
I won't hurt you.
Come on. You can do this.
Come on.
This is easy.
This is easy, Two Socks.
I am in mourning.
No, we cannot.
Yes.
We must be careful.
O.K.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait.
[Voices]
What?
Trouble.
The Pawnee are coming-- 40 or 50 men.
Hunters found them not far to the north.
Stone Calf, wait. I will follow you.
The Pawnee do not come for horses. They come for blood.
Get your weapons and come to my lodge.
I will go.
I will get them.
Stone Calf, wait.
I have-- I have guns.
I have many rifles.
At the fort?
Yes.
No. The ride is long, and we can spare no men.
Guns would make one warrior like two.
Take one man and go quickly.
I will take Smiles A Lot.
Come here.
Aah!
Shoot the gun!
Aah!
[Whooping]
Aah!
It was hard to know how to feel.
I'd never been in a battle like this.
There was no dark political objective.
This was not a fight for territory or riches
or to make men free.
It had been fought
to preserve the winter food stores,
to protect the women and children.
Stone Calf was a great loss,
but even the old men could not remember
such a one-sided victory.
I gradually began to look at it in a new way.
I felt a pride I'd never felt before.
I'd never really known who John Dunbar was.
Perhaps the name itself had no meaning.
But as I heard my Sioux name being called over and over,
I knew for the first time who I really was.
[Speaking Lakota]
[Chanting]
[Gunshot]
[Speaking Lakota]
Where are you going? There is gambling tonight.
Horseback's games are always good.
I'm tired. Horseback already has a good rifle of mine.
Good night.
How long will Stands With A Fist mourn?
I don't know.
I hope it will not be too long.
Has something happened?
What?
She has found love again.
With who?
Who do you think?
Tell me.
Dances With Wolves.
Are you certain of this?
When you see them together, you will know.
What are people saying?
They like the match.
No one is angry?
It makes sense. They are both white.
I suppose I will be the one to say something.
She's your daughter now.
I know.
Relax. You can't see everything coming.
Stop it. Quit your playing.
Stands With A Fist.
You will mourn no more.
Turn around.
You look good.
You know, the man she mourned for...
he was my best friend.
I didn't know that.
He was a good man.
It has been hard for me to like you.
I am not the thinker. Kicking Bird is.
I always feel anger first.
There were no answers to my questions.
But now I think he went away because you were coming.
That is how I see it.
[Chanting]
This is a good day for me.
And for me.
If you want this man, take his hand in yours.
I had never been married before.
I don't know if all grooms have the same experience,
but as Kicking Bird spoke about
what was expected of a Sioux husband,
my mind began to shut out everything but her--
the details of her costume, the contours of her shape,
the light in her eyes,
the smallness of her feet.
I knew that the love between us would be served.
Have you heard all that I have said?
Yes.
Good. Then take her inside.
She is your wife.
Oh, good.
Thank you.
Bye.
[Ululating]
[Chanting]
It's good to be out.
Yes, it must be.
We are trying for a baby.
No waiting?
No waiting.
I was just thinking that of all the trails in this life...
there is one that matters most.
It is the trail of a true human being.
I think you are on this trail, and it is good to see.
We call you the Busy Bee.
[Speaking Lakota]
You always ask about the white people.
You always want to know how many more are coming.
There will be a lot, my friend.
More than can be counted.
How many?
Like the stars.
[Speaking Lakota]
It makes me afraid for all the Sioux.
We should tell this to Ten Bears.
The men who wore this came...
in the time of my Grandfather's Grandfather.
Eventually we drove them out.
Then the Mexicans came. They do not come here anymore.
In my own time, the Texans.
They have been like all the others.
They take without asking.
I don't know if we are ready for these people.
But I think you are right. I think they will keep coming.
When I think of that, I look at this helmet.
Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it.
Tomorrow we will strike the village...
and go to the winter camp.
You have everything from the soldier fort?
Yes.
There's nothing for me there.
That's good.
The journal.
Stands With--Wait!
It was important.
The words in the book
are like a trail for people to follow.
It tells everything about my life here.
I must get it.
Enough. We cannot wait for you.
I'll catch up.
Injun!
Get him!
No!
Stay down. Stay.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
It's O.K.
Oh.
Something has happened.
Dances With Wolves is not coming.
He must have trouble.
Pick two good men and send them back to the soldier fort.
Spivey.
Yes, Sergeant.
Tell the major he's waking up.
Move your worthless ass.
You got yourself a hell of a shiner,
didn't you?
Major's coming through.
Well, does he speak English?
I don't know, sir.
Speak English?
Talk English?
Talk!
I speak English.
Who are you?
Lieutenant John J. Dunbar. This is my post.
Why are you dressed like this?
I came out from Fort Hayes last April,
but there was nobody here.
Do you have proof of that?
My journal's on the bunk in my quarters.
My orders are in the journal.
It will tell you everything.
Spivey, you and Edwards were the first ones here.
Did you find a journal?
No, we didn't find nothing.
Where's Edwards?
He's outside.
Hey, he didn't find nothing either.
Ha ha ha.
You turned Injun, didn't you?
Didn't you?
He's a white man.
They say he's a soldier.
He's an officer.
Do you salute him or shoot him?
[Laughter]
Here, you. Eyes front.
I said eyes front!
Don't shoot him! Hit him!
Get him!
Why are you out of uniform?
What's the Army doing here?
Hey!
Lieutenant's asking the questions.
Bauer.
We're charged with apprehending--
We're charged with apprehending hostiles
and recovering stolen property,
retrieving white captives
taken in hostile raidings.
There are no hostiles.
We will ascertain that.
If you'll guide us to these camps and interpret,
your conduct will be re-evaluated.
What conduct?
Your status as a traitor might improve
should you choose
to cooperate with the United States Army.
There's nothing for you to do out here.
Are you willing to cooperate or not?
Well, speak up!
I am Dances With Wolves.
What's that?
I have nothing to say to you.
You are not worth talking to.
Sergeant, form a detail
and take this man down to the river.
Let him clean up his face.
Yes, sir.
Not you, Spivey.
Hey, Spivey.
You got paper?
What's it to you?
Give me some, shit-bird.
Can you read?
No, I can't read. You can't read either.
Now just give me some.
Quick, give me some!
All right. Hold your horses.
[Laughs]
Bauer!
Hey, let go of me!
Lap it up, Injun.
Go ahead. Lap it up.
You son of a bitch!
Hey, hey, hey! Hey!
It's all right.
He's going to get hungrier, that's all.
But maybe that don't matter.
Word is they're going to ship you back to Hayes.
And once you get there,
they're going to hang you.
[Laughs]
Come on. Forget about him.
Go on. Get out of here.
Hyah!
Hyah! Get up in there!
[Whistles]
Hyah!
Get up in there!
Hyah!
Hey, Spivey, what is that?
Looks like he's following us.
Hell, I'm going to shoot him.
[Gunshot]
Dang. You missed him.
Don't shoot.
It's my shot.
Look at that stupid bastard.
He ain't even moving.
Wait a minute. That's my shot.
Shoot him!
[Gunshot]
He's standing there.
Shoot him!
[Gunshot]
Aah!
- Jesus Christ! - Holy shit!
Bauer! Aah!
Bauer, get him off him!
He might have killed you.
[Gunshot]
I'll get that son of a bitch.
[Gunshot]
You missed him.
Sit down, God damn it!
[Yelps]
That's it. I got him!
I got him!
Dead shot, boys. Come on.
Son of a bitch!
Spivey!
Get up!
What are you doing? Edwards!
Get up!
I mean it! Get up!
Spivey!
Get up!
Spivey!
You bash that prisoner again,
I'll put those shackles on you.
You men get back here!
Now!
God damn it!
Get down here.
Boom.
Clear behind that stand of trees?
Hey!
All right. Let's go.
[Spivey] I don't see nobody.
Indians!
[Whooping]
Aah!
Bauer!
[Shouting]
[Whooping]
Dances With Wolves is quiet these days.
Is his heart bad?
Killing the soldiers at the river...
was a good thing.
I did not mind killing those men. I was glad to do it.
But the soldiers hate me now, like they hate no other.
They think I am a traitor.
And they will hunt for me.
And when they find me, they find you.
I think it would be wise to move the village now.
I will be leaving.
I must go and talk with those who would listen.
[Arguing In Lakota]
Quiet. You are hurting my ears.
Leave us alone.
You are the only white man I have ever known.
I have thought about you a lot. More than you know.
But I think you are wrong.
The man the soldiers are looking for no longer exists.
Now there is only a Sioux named Dances With Wolves.
Let's smoke a while.
With Ten Bears, it was always more than a while.
There was purpose in everything he did.
He wanted me to stay.
But I was sure of myself.
I would be an excuse
for the Army to find this place.
I pushed him to move the camp,
but he only talked of simple pleasures.
He reminded me that at his age
a good fire is better than anything.
Ten Bears was an extraordinary man.
You have nothing to say?
What can I tell you?
What's ever on your mind.
You've made the decision.
My place is with you.
I go where you go.
You're not afraid?
No.
I told Ten Bears we'd leave when the snow breaks.
Did you tell everyone?
Not everyone.
It's all right.
You, uh... finish your pipe?
Ah.
Good pipe.
How, uh... does it smoke?
I've never smoked it.
We come far, you and me.
I will not forget you.
Dances With Wolves.
I am Wind In His Hair.
Do you see that I am your friend?
Can you see that you will always be my friend?
[Shouting In Lakota]
Sergeant! Over here! Now!
[Howling]