Dances with Wolves.

[Pamela Munro]

I guess I'll throw in my story on this.

My dear departed Lakhota teacher Hannah Left Hand Bull Fixico worked
with Kevin C. in Hollywood on the editing of the movie, an experience
that deeply impressed her (she sat with him and told him when it would
make sense to cut, etc.) -- he was very polite and deferential to her,
and she just loved him.

But when we sat down on one occasion with the video and tried to make a
transcript of one of the Lakhota conversations (among non-native
speakers), she was so dismayed by the quality of the Lakhota -- when it
came to writing it down word for word, rather than just letting it flow
along -- that she became very uncomfortable and didn't want to continue.
She would not, I think, have given as high a grade as B+...

Pam

Jonathan Holmes wrote:

> When "Dances With Wolves" first came out I found out that a couple
> of Lakota friends (Doris Leader Charge who is also in a couple of
> non-speaking scenes, and Albert White Hat, Sr.) had been instrumental
> in teaching the cast how to speak Lakota. Unfortunately other Lakota
> speakers from both Pine Ridge and Rosebud who watched the movie
> gave the cast an overall B+ for their ability. My Pawnee friends gave
> higher marks for the Pawnee language used in the movie. "They spoke
> good Pawnee." Still, the movie did much better than some other movies
> in the past.
>
>
> "R. Rankin" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:
>
>     For those of you who like Kevin Costner or Floyd Red
>     Crow Westerman and want to hear some spoken Lakota (or
>     that mysterious language no one can identify that is
>     supposed to be Pawnee), I see that the PAX network has
>     the movie scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) evening at 8
>     p.m. Central Time. I don't know about other zones, but
>     the network is nationwide.
>
>     Bob
>
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