Like others, I really love this movie. One of my top three favorites of all time. The scenery, the acting, the music, is all Class A. One of my favorite scenes is where Wind in His Hair is yelling to Dances with Wolves "Can you see that I am your friend"? A real gulp moment for me. Very moving scenes; the music absolutely drives the film and moves a person to the innermost being. Great job Kevin Costner and John Barry!!! I would say John Williams and Barry are our modern day equivalents of the classic artists.

Some of my other favorite soundtracks are Gladiator, Out of Africa, Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and Red October.

What is the sioux translation of dances with wolves? costner asked stands with a fist how to say it and he said it something like shumani tutanka owachee. tatanka is buffalo, so I don't think it's buffalo unless tatanka has multiple meanings. I've been searching online and can't seem to find the proper spelling anywhere.

initially I thought it was jumani tatanka owachee

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> Like others, I really love this movie. One of my top three favorites of
> all time. The scenery, the acting, the music, is all Class A. One of my
> favorite scenes is where Wind in His Hair is yelling to Dances with Wolves
> "Can you see that I am your friend"? A real gulp moment for me.
> Very moving scenes; the music absolutely drives the film and moves a
> person to the innermost being. Great job Kevin Costner and John Barry!!! I
> would say John Williams and Barry are our modern day equivalents of the
> classic artists.

> Some of my other favorite soundtracks are Gladiator, Out of Africa, Band
> of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and Red October.

It is TUtanka for wolve - and TAtanka for buffalo - so it makes perfectly sense

> What is the sioux translation of dances with wolves? costner asked stands
> with a fist how to say it and he said it something like shumani tutanka
> owachee. tatanka is buffalo, so I don't think it's buffalo unless tatanka
> has multiple meanings. I've been searching online and can't seem to find
> the proper spelling anywhere.

The correct Lakota Sioux spelling for Dances with Wolves is : Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci

Greetings from the Araucan and Mapuche tribes in South America.

Arturo

> The correct Lakota Sioux spelling for Dances with Wolves is : Sunkmanitu
> Tanka Owaci

> Greetings from the Araucan and Mapuche tribes in South America.

> Arturo

I hear that as "Dances with wolves" But more importantly is the english follow up of " Do you know you are my Friend? Do you know that you will always be my friend?"

Learn to say that in any native american dialect and you have learned to be a human being.

> I hear that as "Dances with wolves" But more importantly is the
> english follow up of " Do you know you are my Friend? Do you know
> that you will always be my friend?"

> Learn to say that in any native american dialect and you have learned to
> be a human being.

That is my favorite part of the movie! So what is the transalation?

> Part of it is almost a direct lift from a James Bond theme...the music played at various times...the music during the rescue scene; leading up to the buffalo hunt; can't believe no one has noticed that.

I thought I was the only one that noticed this! That is so cool that you noticed that! I love James Bond soundtracks and so "way back when" I purchased a John Barry compilation cassette of James Bond soundtrack music, probably at a truckstop somewhere, and played it through the eighties. Then when I saw "Dances With Wolves" back in 1990 in a theatre in Spearfish, SD, I noticed the John Barry credit and was sensitive to the music with reference to the James Bond series and it was very familiar that way. This only made the music experience that much more exciting and "grand" to me.