Rain-in-the-Face (Ite Omagazu, l. c. 1835-1905) was a Lakota Sioux warrior and war chief during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) and at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), after which he became famous as the man who killed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, his brother Capt. Thomas Custer, or both of them.
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c. 1835 - 1905Life of Sioux warrior Rain-in-the-Face.
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1866 - 1868Rain-in-the-Face is a war chief during Red Cloud's War.
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21 Dec 1866Rain-in-the-Face fights in the Battle-of-the-Hundred-in-the-Hands/Fetterman Massacre during Red Cloud's War.
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c. 1868 - c. 1876Rain-in-the-Face follows Sitting Bull and Sioux war chief Gall in continuing to resist US government's expansionist policies.
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1874Rain-in-the-Face is arrested for murder, imprisoned at Fort Lincoln, and escapes.
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1876Rain-in-the-Face fights at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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1877Rain-in-the-Face retreats to Canada with Sitting Bull and Sioux War Chief Gall.
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1878Rain-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.
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1880Rain-in-the-Face returns from Canada to the USA and surrenders to US authorities.
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c. 1894Rain-in-the-Face gives the now-famous W. Kent Thomas interview.
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c. 1895 - 1905Rain-in-the-Face spends his last years at the Standing Rock Agency reservation.
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1905Rain-in-the-Face tells Charles A. Eastman his life story shortly before death.
