Dances with Wolves (1990)

Mary McDonnell: Stands With A Fist

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• Stands With a Fist : [translating for Kicking Bird]  He thanks Dances with Wolves for coming.

  John Dunbar : Who is Dances with Wolves?

  Stands With a Fist : It is the name all the people are calling you now.

• John Dunbar : How did you get your name?

  Stands With a Fist : When I came to live on the prarie, I worked every day... very hard... there was a woman who didn't like me. She called me bad names... sometimes she beat me. One day she was calling me these bad names, her face in my face, and I hit her. I was not very big, but she fell down. She fell hard and didn't move. I stood over her with my fist and asked if any other woman wanted to call me bad names... No one bothered me after that day.

  John Dunbar : [smiles]  I wouldn't think so. Show me... where you hit her.

  [Stands With a Fist balls her fist and touches John at the base of the chin. John feigns being knocked unconscious as Stands With a Fist laughs] 

• Stands With a Fist : My place is with you. I go where you go.

• John Dunbar : I'm John Dunbar.

  Stands With a Fist : John - John Dunber.

  John Dunbar : Dunbar.

  Stands With a Fist : Dunbar - John Dunbar. John Dunbar.

  Kicking Bird : Dumb bear.

  John Dunbar : No, not Dumb Bear.

• Stands With a Fist : He also asks if you would watch over his family while he is gone.

  [pauses] 

  Stands With a Fist : This thing he asks of you is a great honor.

  John Dunbar : Tell him I would be happy to watch over his family.