Dances with Wolves

[R. Rankin]

My impression is that there are no more fluent
Pawnee speakers and precious few if any Rees.  I
can't remember who told me that though.

> Remember that Michael Blake's novel fratured
Comanches rather than
> Lakhotas as the tribe that Dunbar settled among.
I do wonder f the
> switch was made because it was easier to find a
Lakota-speaker to coach
> people in dialogue than a Comanche speaker.
(Though John Ford must have
> found one of the latter during the filming of
The Searchers.)

And the real Lt. Dunbar was with the Pawnees.

Bob