Dances With Wolves Myths

As the years progressed, so did humans. From Black and White to present day color high definition films, we as a society started to progress and started to appreciate and respect all cultures under the sun. Unfortunately, no matter how many years have passed, some ethnicities and races are still underrepresented not only in the papers and television, but also in the cinema, a particular race that has had the worse end of the stick are Native Americans. From the nineteenth century all the way up to the twenty-first century, films about Native Americans have been either depicted as wild ignoble savages, noble savages, squaws, and even princesses. Not one of these pet names is exactly flattering. To make matters even worse once the new age in …show more content…
The author states, “… it is another myth for its times and a highly romanticized and sentimental myth at that.” He continues on expressing, “Dances with Wolves is definitely not about white Indian relations during the 1860s, but rather about the white male desire to go native in the 1990s, era of the men’s movements” you would think that since Dances with Wolves would revolve around the Native American’s point of view, but instead “Native American’s are secondary to the narrative”. What the author is pointing out is that the main character is a white man and the person narrating the indigenous people is the main character LT. John Dunbar, so there is no two sided story, just one. The film tried to show pity on the Native Americans by projecting them as people who “live in harmony with nature, as contrasted to the corruption, viscous, waste and greed of white society”. Although, the movie is semi correct about that they are trying to white wash the whole subject on what happened in the past and incorrectly portraying false information. Many people watching this film will believe everything that is being portrayed in the film is accurate, and will not go back home and try to research the accuracy of it …show more content…
For starters, the author stated how films lately try to brain wash you from the reality, “…tendencies are supported by the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, which is further sustained by our national amnesia, a nationalist failure to by our natural amnesia, a nationalist failure to recognize and “own” our serial history of genocidal tendencies”. In other words, white washing everything from the Native Americans to every minority that has ever stepped foot on U.S.