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Rain-in-the-Face

DEFINITIONS OF: Rain-in-the-Face

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n 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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Siouan, Sioux
a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
Indian chief, Indian chieftain
the leader of a group of Native Americans
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