Historical Evaluatino of "Dances With Wolves" by Michael Blake

Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake, creates a remarkable story of a soldier named Lieutenant Dunbar. This story is written in third person, and has diary entries of lieutenant Dunbar in them. The story tells off buffalo, Comanche enemies, Comanche leisure, society, homes, religion, and clothing. In the novel, Dunbar meets Comanche Indians, and learns their ways of life. The story takes place during the civil war era. Eighteen excerpts from the novel and nineteen …

…Real Comanches wore breastplates according to a primary source. The Primary source is a photograph of a boy wearing a bone breast-plate. The picture was from The Comanche, by Raymond Bial. (p.113.) The historical fiction novel Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake, is set during the civil war. All the details and description of the Comanche Indians in the novel, are in fact true. Michael Blake writes an astonishing story that is amazingly historically accurate.