Rain-in-the-Face, in traditional Sioux costume, photographed by A. Zeese & Company, 1894. Rain-in-the-Face (1835 - September 15, 1905) was a war chief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His name may have been a result of a fight when he was a boy in
Rain-in-the-Face, in traditional Sioux costume, photographed by A. Zeese & Company, 1894. Rain-in-the-Face (1835 - September 15, 1905) was a war chief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His name may have been a result of a fight when he was a boy in which his face was splattered like rain with his Cheyenne adversary's blood. He first fought against the whites in the summer of 1866 when he participated in a raid against Fort Totten in what is now North Dakota. In 1868, he again fought the Army in the Fetterman massacre near Fort Phil Kearny in present-day Wyoming. He again was on the warpath in 1873 when he took part in the Battle of Honsinger Bluff where he ambushed and killed an army veterinarian Dr. John Honsinger. He was arrested by Captain Thomas Custer in 1874 on orders of General George Custer for the murder of Honsinger. He was taken to Fort Abraham Lincoln and incarcerated, but he escaped. In the spring of 1876, he joined Sitting Bull's band and traveled with him to the Little Big Horn River in early June. He was among the Indian leaders who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. He joined other Hunkpapa as they fled north into Canada, spending the next several years in exile. He finally led his band in to surrender in 1880 and was transferred to the Standing Rock Agency the following year. On his deathbed, in 1905, he reputedly confessed to a missionary that he thought that he might have killed Custer, shooting him from so close as to leave powder marks upon his face.
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