Dances with Wolves.

[Pamela Munro]

My first Lakhota teacher, the late Hannah Lefthand Bull Fixico, worked
on the editing of this movie with Kevin Costner (who she adored -- he
was very polite and nice to her, and she loved wearing her DWW cast
jacket). In fact, I believe only the old chief's wife (Doris Leader
Charge) is in fact a fluent native speaker (so listen to her!) -- as I
understand it she was responsible for coaching the other cast members.

Pam

R. Rankin wrote:

>I see that the PAX network is running this movie
>tonight at 8pm eastern, 7 central.  Don't know
>about mountain or pacific.
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>For those of us wasicun's who don't get a chance
>to hear much spoken Lakota, I think most of the
>"elders" in the movie who have large speaking
>parts seem to be pretty fluent.  I'm told that the
>bit players were mostly Cree, since it was filmed
>in Canada, and they had to learn their Lakota
>lines like Kevin Costner.  I don't think anyone
>has ever figured out what the "Pawnee" speakers in
>the movie were actually speaking.
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