They know no words of each other’s languages. Dunbar, the white man, tries to pantomime a buffalo. Wind in His Hair, a fierce warrior, looks at the charade and says, “His mind is gone.” But Kicking Bird, the holy man, thinks he understands what the stranger is trying to say, and at last they exchange the word for “buffalo” in each other’s languages. These first halting words are the crucial moments in Kevin Costner‘s “Dances With Wolves,” a film about a white man who goes to live with Indians and learns their civilization at first hand.