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Rain-in-the-Face

noun

A chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905).

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... and be very famous. Most of the books he read were based upon the slaughter of the "redskins," and yet at heart he wished to be one of them and to taste the wild joy of their poetic life, filled with hunting and warfare. Sitting Bull, Chief Gall, Rain-in-the-Face, Spotted Tail, Star-in-the-Brow, and Black Buffalo became wonder-working names in his mind. Every line in the newspapers which related to the life of the cowboys or Indians he read and remembered, for his plan was to become a part of it as soon as he had money enough ...

— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland

... killing. Rain-in-the-face was arrested for this, on the reservation; but he escaped and vowed vengeance. He went to ...

— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin