"Dances With Wolves" Vs. "Smoke Signals"

There were a few differences in the way that Indians are shown between "Dances With Wolves" and "Smoke Signals. Just a couple of them are these....

Firstly, the Indians in "Dances With Wolves" were actually believable that they were Indians....... (as in they didn't seem suspiciously Canadian....). Another difference is that Dances With Wolves takes place in the past (The Civil War), while smoke Signals takes place in the recent past as it shows them in a more present context. Although these things are true, one of the biggest differences that I noticed was that the Indians in Smoke Signals were not very aggressive at all and they seemed to be a little bit less connected with their past. However, in Dances With Wolves, the Sioux Indian tribe takes the more aggressive initiative and tries to steal John's horse and kill his former companion and they even were thinking about killing him at one point in the movie.

I think that although these two movies were made about almost similar topics and people, the Indians in them were very different.