Rain-in-the-Face, Ité Omáǧažu, also translated as Face-to-the-Storm, was born near the forks of the Cheyenne River in present-day South Dakota around 1835. He was born into a family of Hunkpapa, one of the seven Lakota tribes of the Great Sioux Nation. He was a proud and sometimes boastful man, always eager to recount his deeds of bravery. With a fierce hatred of the Wašícus (white men) that matched the great Sitting Bull’s,
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