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Who is Touch The Clouds?

by | Feb 20, 2009 | Inside History

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Who is Touch the Clouds? Al Schaller Shasta Lake, California Touch The Clouds (real name Mahpia Icahtagya) was a chief of the Minneconjou Teton Sioux (Lakota). He was a cousin to Chief Crazy Horse and a brother to Chief Big Foot, who was photographed in that famous picture lying dead in the snow following the massacre at Wounded Knee. Touch The Clouds was born in present-day South Dakota in 1836. A great warrior and skilled military leader, he and Crazy Horse fought together during the Indian W


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