The Remorse of Rain-in-the-Face, Whom Whites Saw as a Scary Indian

He liked one 7th Cavalry trooper—and it was not a Custer. When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow needed an Indian warrior to play the villain in his poem about Custer’s Last Stand, he intuitively selected Rain-in-the-Face, the Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) war chief who once boasted that he cut out Tom Custer’s heart and ate it. Good choice. …

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