<P> Costner developed the film with an initial budget of $15 million . Dances with Wolves had high production values and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture--Drama . Much of the dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles . It was shot in South Dakota and Wyoming, and translated by Albert White Hat, the chair of the Lakota Studies Department at Sinte Gleska University . </P> <P> The film is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood . In 2007, Dances with Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </P> <P> In 1863, First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is wounded in battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee . Choosing death in battle over amputation of his leg, he takes a horse and rides up to and along the Confederate lines . Despite numerous pot shots, the Confederates fail to hit him, and while they are distracted, the Union Army successfully attacks the line . Dunbar survives, receives a citation for bravery, and proper medical care . He recovers fully and is awarded Cisco, the horse who carried him, and his choice of posting . Dunbar requests a transfer to the western frontier so he can see it before it disappears . </P> <P> Dunbar is transferred to Fort Hays, a large fort presided over by Major Fambrough, an unhinged officer who despises Dunbar's enthusiasm . He agrees to post him to the furthest outpost they have, Fort Sedgewick, and kills himself shortly afterwards . Dunbar travels with Timmons, a mule wagon provisioner; they arrive to find the fort deserted . Despite the threat of nearby native tribes, Dunbar elects to stay and man the post himself . He begins rebuilding and restocking the fort, and prefers the solitude, recording many of his observations in his diary . Timmons is killed by Pawnee people on the journey back to Ft . Hays; his death, together with that of the major who had sent them there, prevents other soldiers from knowing of Dunbar's assignment, and no other soldiers arrive to reinforce the post . </P>

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