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1835 CE - 1905 CE: Life of Sioux warrior Rain-in-the-Face.
1866 CE - 1868 CE: Rain-in-the-Face is a war chief during Red Cloud's War.
1866 CE: Rain-in-the-Face fights in the Battle-of-the-Hundred-in-the-Hands/Fetterman Massacre during Red Cloud's War.
1868 CE - 1876 CE: Rain-in-the-Face follows Sitting Bull and Sioux war chief Gall in continuing to resist US government's expansionist policies.
1874 CE: Rain-in-the-Face is arrested for murder, imprisoned at Fort Lincoln, and escapes.
1876 CE: Rain-in-the-Face fights at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
1877 CE: Rain-in-the-Face retreats to Canada with Sitting Bull and Sioux War Chief Gall.
1878 CE: Rain-in-the-Face becomes famous as the killer of General Custer after the publication of the poem "The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face" by Henry W. Longfellow.
1880 CE: Rain-in-the-Face returns from Canada to the USA and surrenders to US authorities.
1894 CE: Rain-in-the-Face gives the now-famous W. Kent Thomas interview.
1895 CE - 1905 CE: Rain-in-the-Face spends his last years at the Standing Rock Agency reservation.
1905 CE: Rain-in-the-Face tells Charles A. Eastman his life story shortly before death.