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Post by stevewilk on Mar 29, 2008 13:56:37 GMT -6
Footnote 26 on page 508 of Vol. 5 of Peter Cozzens' Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars :
"....An irascible character, Rain-in-the-Face had seven wives, none of whom lived long or happily with him; the last was found dead in their tepee with her throat slit."
Yikes. What a sweetheart of a guy. Does anyone know the circumstances; who was this unfortunate soul? What was the fate of the other six wives?
Perhaps "Rain" did indeed cut out Tom Custer's heart after all.
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Post by Dark Cloud on Mar 29, 2008 14:16:22 GMT -6
Good questions, and until answered, makes it impossible to know how the opinion was obtained. Puzzling, since there was much pressure to hang Rain because of the Custer heart story, and a half plausible murder of a wife would have filled the bill. How do we know the opinions of his wives neither named nor interviewed?
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Post by brock on Mar 29, 2008 16:56:49 GMT -6
It doesn't sound plausible to me. The Lakota took the murder of tribal member by another tribal member extremely seriously and he would have been forced to leave the village. After all his wife would have had parents or siblings or cousins or relatives of some kind, so she wouldn't have been some anonymous woman. Those murders that are known have split the Lakota even today and can dictate what communities many of them live in, especially they ones where there has not been a wiping of tears ceremony. Had he done it, I would have to say it would have been a big deal in the Lakota community that would have had multiple references.
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Post by crawdaddo on Apr 5, 2008 23:29:17 GMT -6
In all the books,bios' etc. on Rain in the face,I have never come across this allegation.given his popularity or lack of after the Custer defeat I'm sure if he had done this it would have come to light many times before.You really have to crosscheck these sorts of things.You sum it up well brock....cheers craw
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Post by ladonna on Apr 7, 2008 13:44:01 GMT -6
The story that was recorded in Peter Cozzens' Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars we have never heard of this story. I would say that it is false. It is common for Native men to have many wives and since this is part of my family that would of passed down a story like that. Rain-In-The-Face was a good man who protected his people.
Standing Rock 1889 census
Rain-in-the face age 38
Wife: Head Woman age 45
daughter: Red Leaf Woman age 18
daughter: Came for her Woman age 15
son: Gives Spotted age 11
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Post by ladonna on Apr 7, 2008 14:05:19 GMT -6
One of Rain-in-the-Face's wife name was Sati
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