The movie “Dances With Wolves” is set in the 1860’s and follows a westernized military officer who as requested gets posted out on the American Frontier, home of the Souix and many others. Dunbar's first interactions with the Souix were hostile, until on his way to make peace he found a white Souix woman hurt, and took her back to her camp. The woman acted as an interpreter between Souix and John Dunbar. After a lot of time and committed work, Dunbar becomes accepted by the Souix and they work together, learning each other's ways of life. Lieutenant Dubar learns the Lakota language and after two successful wars with the Souix he moves with them for the winter, after he was kidnapped and nearly killed by American soldiers they decide they must separate from the Souix in order to …show more content…
With every interaction they had they started to slowly adapt to each other and form with the other way of life, such as Dunbar living the Souix life but the Souix also learned some of a more westernized lifestyle. In one of their first personal interactions Dunbar invited them to Fort Sedgwick where he proceeds to show them the coffee grinder he produced, a coffee grinder was something none of them had ever seen before. Dunbar is very enthusiastic as he shows them this while the group of Souix people are not. When he gives them coffee to try, he gets an approving nod when one of the leaders smells the grounds, they all enjoy the foreign drink when he brings out sugar and they try it. The Sioux people and Lieutenant John Dunbar exchanged the use of tools and food quite often, it made their lives both easier and harder in certain aspects, an example of easier would be when the Sioux used guns Dunbar supplied to win in a war, and an example of it making things more difficult would be that they both had to adapt to each other and their ways of life. The challenge they really faced was not being able to communicate with each