The first part of the book is great, like the first book was. Then it appears that the author got bored with his story, or else he died and the book was finished by someone else who had no vested interest in the story. ( )

Written okay, but I guess I'm tired of books that can only relate Native American history by including a white person as a main protagonist. On the positive side, it does portray an interpretation of the experience of the persecution and genocide of Native tribes which might enlighten some readers. However, Blake makes no pretense of portraying any actual history. For example, while Ten Bears was a real Comanche chief who made at least one eloquent transcribed speech, he did not die in Washington. Kicking Bird was Kiowa, not Comanche. While he was both a war leader & a proponent for accepting the reservation, & did die after drinking coffee, other parts of his history were rearranged in this book.
I notice that the Quaker, "Lawrie Tatum" was not portrayed using his real name "Thomas Battey" even tho Blake made use of the real names of Native leaders. To be fair, Colonel Ranald MacKenzie's real name & commonly known name (Bad Hand) were used altho, again, historical facts were mixed up.
Some inconsistencies also bothered me. That Ten Bears would have been asphyxiated by extinguishing gas lights in his hotel. To be in character, however, Ten Bears would have slept with his hotel windows open, instead of remaining completely enclosed in the box. He did know how to open windows (p. 276). Also we are told that when Stands-With-A-Fist was captured, she "defecated any where. I was trying to figure out if this was passive-defiant behavior, and then we learn that Always Walking also made trouble by defecating where ever she was. I'm sure that in a tribal society, people made some choices about defecating, and wouldn't just leave their excrement in the pathways. Maybe that would be possible if there were sufficient dogs or other animals to eat the wastes & keep the area cleaned up. The final major inconsistency is that Dances With Wolves, after only about a dozen years among the tribe, completely forgot how to form English words and had to struggle to make the sounds as one word utterances. My experience in learning a foreign language is that after decades of not using something studied for only 1-2 years I can still recall & pronounce entire phrases. ( )

The sequel to [Dances With Wolves] was very disappointing. I felt the author was just capitalizing on the popularity of the earlier work. ( )

Nachfolgetitel zum Roman 'Der mit dem Wolf tanzt'. Während der erste Roman sich auf die Annäherung eines weißen Soldaten an einen Comanchenstamm konzentriert, wird im zweiten Teil, der 10 Jahre danach einsetzt, die Geschichte in einen größeren historischen Kontext gesetzt. Hier geht es um die endgültige Unterwerfung der Indianer durch die Weißen.
In den Mittelpunkt rücken der Stammeshäuptling Ten Bears sowie die beiden erfahrenen Stammeskrieger Kicking Birds und Wind in hid Hair und deren unterschiedlicher Umgang mit den historischen Ereignissen.
Der alte und weise Ten Bears zeigt große Offenheit gegenüber der Kultur der Weißen, hat letztlich aber doch nur Verachtung übrig für deren Umgang mit Natur und Kreatur. Kicking Birds versucht durch Verhandlungen mit den Weißen zu Frieden zu kommen. Obwohl ihm schnell bewusst wird, dass die Weißen ihre Zusagen nie einhalten, erkennt er bald, dass es keine Alternative zur bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Indianer gibt, da die weißen Soldaten zahlen- und waffenmäßig unendlich überlegen sind. Um das Leben seiner Familie zu retten, ist er bereit, in eines der Reservate einzuziehen. Dem gegenüber steht die Haltung von Wind in his Hair. Er möchte - trotz des Ultimatums der Weißen - weiter kämpfen und lieber als freier Mann sterben, als in einem Reservat vor sich hin zu vegetieren.
Jede einzelne Familie des Stammes steht nun vor der Entscheidung, welchen Weg sie geht. Aber so oder so - das wird hier sehr deutlich - wird es in diesem Land, das die Weißen für sich beanspruchen, keine Zukunft für die indianische Kultur geben.
Eine starke, emotionale Geschichte in Übereinstimmung mit den historischen Tatsachen, deren unausweichliches, aber tieftrauriges Ende mich ratlos und sehr betroffen zurückgelassen hat. ( )

The opening plot showed some real promise and sucked me in but the author chose to take the political route. He perpetuated the myth that Native Americans are all noble and good and environmentally-minded while white people are pretty much the opposite. He depicted the Commanche (even Dunbar) as incredibly simple-minded and naive. I hear they're wanting to make this one into a sequel of the first movie but that would be a mistake. ( )