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Rain-in-the-Face

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Noun1.Rain-in-the-Face - 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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Legend has it that the famous Sioux chief Rain-in-the-Face got his name in this manner: His mother had left him strapped to a board propped up on a tree trunk while she whipped up lunch for her husband.
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