"Experienced but not fluent. It took three months to learn the dialogue, he told True West magazine in 2021. I had no idea what I was saying and I had to learn it phonetically. I'd be running 10 miles a day with my headphones on, listening to the translations, mumbling away in Lakota, and people were looking at me funny. But I got it down."
"Greene, an Oneida who grew up on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, starred as Kicking Bird, the Sioux holy man who accepts Lieutenant Dunbar, a white Union lieutenant played by Costner, into his community and forms an alliance with him. The film was steeped in sentimentality, but Greene brought an effortless integrity, as well as humility and a dry wit, to his performance."
Graham Greene, an Oneida actor raised on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, died aged 73. He starred as Kicking Bird, the Sioux holy man, in Dances With Wolves, accepting Lieutenant Dunbar into his community and forming an alliance with him. The film used Native American and First Nations actors and delivered much dialogue in Lakota with English subtitles. Greene learned his Lakota lines phonetically over three months, practicing while running and listening to translations. He brought integrity, humility and dry wit to the role and received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The film received 12 nominations and won seven Oscars, including best picture.
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