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Title: A good tool for learning the Lakota language
Review: I am a teacher of Lakota language. While this film is flawed in its accuracy of Lakota culture in many ways, which is why I deducted a star from the rating, and while to the trained ear the Lakota is not spoken well because none of the principle cast was a Lakota speaker, this film..especially the long version..remains one of my best teaching tools for my students. I give Costner a great deal of credit for insisting on using the actual Lakota language rather than having the film all in English as he was pressured to do by Hollywood. Lakota, like many Native languages, is in danger of extinction if more young Lakotas don't take the initiative to learn their language, and this film put that language in the ears of the world. I can nit-pick on the cultural inaccuracies in DWW, but I'd rather concentrate on the fact that this film presented this beautiful language to the world and for that, I am grateful. Wowahwa na wopila. (Peace, and thanks). Cait
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