First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
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About the Author<br />
<strong>First</strong> <strong>Nation</strong> Fiction/Film Unit<br />
Dances With Wolves<br />
by Michael Blake<br />
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Originally from North Carolina, Michael Blake began his writing career during his<br />
service in the armed forces. He pursued his writing as a student journalist at the University of<br />
New Mexico and, in the seventies, attended film school in Berkeley California where he began<br />
writing screenplays. He later relocated to Los Angeles to be closer to the film industry. He now<br />
lives with his wife and children on a ranch in southern Arizona.<br />
Michael Blake received several awards for Dances With Wolves, including an Academy<br />
Award for his screen adaptation of the novel.<br />
About the Novel<br />
www.amazon.com<br />
In 1863, <strong>First</strong> Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is injured in the American Civil<br />
War. Rather than having his foot amputated, he takes a horse up to the Confederate front lines.<br />
Distracted by Dunbar, the Confederates are routed as the Union army attacks. Dunbar is allowed<br />
to properly recover, receives a citation for bravery and is awarded Cisco, the horse who carried<br />
him, as well as his choice of posting. He requests a transfer to the frontier so he can see its vast<br />
terrain before the opportunity goes. Arriving at his new post, Fort Sedgwick, he finds it<br />
abandoned and in disrepair. He decides to man the post himself and begins rebuilding, preferring<br />
the solitude and recording his many observations in a journal. Dunbar also befriends an<br />
inquisitive wolf he names "Two Socks" for its white forepaws.