Dancing With Wolves Compare And Contrast

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee and Dancing With Wolves are very similar movies. They tell a similar story and theme. Each showed love,family, relationship, and trust. Being a part of a family especially both being an Indian, shows your true colors. Dancing With Wolves is about a man who leaves his home to start a new one out by the frontier, while Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is about white men making reservations for the indians and planning to take their land. These movies were both a book and written in the 1900’s.

A similarity of the two movies is that they both have a very strong and warm hearted leader. The leader of the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is Sitting Bull. As where the Leader of the movie Dancing With Wolves is Kicking

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