Dances with Wolves.

[Rankin, Robert L]

That's interesting.  I had heard that at least one Pawnee specialist
couldn't identify the language as Pawnee in the short clip in which it
was used.  As for the Lakota, I heard several different versions.  One
was that some of the film was done in Canada and that a number of Cree
speakers had to be coached on the Lakota dialog.  Others have told me
that most of the actors were actually Lakotas.  At least Floyd Westerman
and some of the other Lakota "elders" in the film seem to be fluent.
Bob

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	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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