Show E S lories tories t 0 roes of 0 GREAT G EAT INDIANS COM B by EL ELMO 0 SCOTT WATSON v copyright Conr lEbl 1122 1922 western newspaper union CHIEF RAIN rainen IN THE FACE GOT undeserved IAME FAME the possible exception 0 01 WITH sitting bull and curley custers Cu stera crow scout more misinformation has been written about calnin the paca face Itlo chief of the Hunk papas a than any other indian who ever lived when lie he died september 12 the word was as flushed flashed all over the country that the indian who killed general custer is dead during the stanley expedition up the yellowstone in 1873 ilala in TI the le face murdered two civilians who had strayed from custers Ou command a crime for which he was arrested by capt tom custer a icar later and imprisoned at fort abraham lincoln N D lie iio escaped es cipel and after joining the hostiles lio ho stiles under sitting bull he Is 18 said to lia haie e sent word back to the fort that he would have ills his ree revenge 90 on the whole custer family and on captain tom in particular out of this threat grew the story that rain kain lu in the face after the battle of little big horn had cut out tom custers austers Ou heart and eaten a piece of it mrs custer in her ber book boots and saddles makes such an assertion but iraln ln in the face in telling ILIS his life story to dr charles A eastman Ei istman the noted sioux writer denied any such deed and it Is reasonable to be believe aleve that the warrior would tell a member of his own race the truth more than that dr porter and general benteen Bente cn who found tom custers body after the battle have stated positively that 11 lie e was not mutilated in tills this way in Long fellows poem the revenge of rain in the aaice lie he repeats the story although he makes gen george custer the victim of the atrocity instead of tom custer this may be the origin of the yarn yam that rain in the face was the slayer of custer the circumstances connected with ills fits killing the two civilians from custers command showed that he was a ruthless savage warrior ills his bold attack on lort fort totten IN D in ism asco with two companions an act of sheer bravado growing out of a dare and his endurance of the worst tortures of the sun dance without a mu murmur amur proved that he was waa a man utterly indifferent to pain danger or of death after the siou wars were over maln in the face settled on the standing rock reservation and in applied for admission to the Hai Ilaw opton liton school an effort which inspired a second poem about him this time from the pen of another great american poet jolin john G 1 1 whittler whittier on the reservation rain ln in the face became an aa indian policeman |