Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Compare And Contrast

Dances with Wolves and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee are similar and different in many ways. Both movies show us that people treated Indians differently back in the 18 and 1900’s. Dances with Wolves told a story of a white person getting away from his old life and finding a way to live a new one. Where as, in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee they are starting to look into the way the whites lived and they are giving up some of their things that they believe in to be more excepted. Both of the movies showed that people change people and sometimes it is for the better and sometimes it is for the worst. When it comes to living in this time the thing you need most sometimes is love. In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was based on the real reservations they were making for the Indians. The movie Dances with Wolves was based on the Revolutionary war. Both of these movies were very good and they showed true characters.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Dances with Wolves are similar in a few ways.

Both movies were very passion filled with lots of true based things happening. Both of these movies have strong leaders who would do anything for there tribes and the people they love. The leader in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Sitting Bull a famous Indian leader. The leader in Dances with Wolves was Kicking Bird, who was not as famous as Sitting Bull. The setting in Dances with Wolves was in South Dakota which is where they were in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Both movies they lead characters had found love and would do anything for love. In these movies there lead characters are strong willed and would do anything for the people they love even if that means they will end up dying. In both of the movies they followed their heart and did not let anyone stop them from trying to save their people. Some similarities are that these movies show us that how the whites treated the Indians was cruel and was not treated as

equals.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Dances with Wolves are also different in many ways. The Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was after the Indians and the whites were fighting, the whites had agreed to give the Indians some land if they would stop killing the whites as the traveled through. The whites in this movie go back on there truce and say they want all the Indians on a few reservations were they say they are all equal but are not at all, they still see the Indians as not equals to them. Where as, in Dances with Wolves they knew they were not equals but attacked as though it did not matter to them. In Dances with Wolves the were still fighting the whites for land and food that they need to stay alive. John Dunbar also known as Dances with Wolves find love with another of the whites that lives among the Sioux tribe. Another difference is the leaders of the tribes, the leader in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Sitting Bull which is later killed in the movie from a gunshot wound and the leader in Dances with Wolves was Kicking Bird which he did not die in the movie but was later hunted by the white and died after 10 years most of the Indians were gone from his tribe.

In conclusion, these were great movies that had great actors who played there parts very well. These movies were more similar than different, with many similarities and few differences. Both tribes were Sioux tribes and they were both had characters that were based off of true people that lived in the 1800s and 1900s. Some things in these movies are things that actually happen like the Battle of Little BigHorn. Where as somethings are not the real thing that happens, such as in the movie Dance with Wolves when John Dunbar also known as Dances with Wolves was playing around with the wolf in the field. Both of these movies are very good movies with magnificent settings and backgrounds with splendid actors who played there part almost perfectly. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Dances with Wolves have many similarities and many differences.