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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Songs of Labour and Reform (search)
s poem on the massacre, these lines will be remembered:— ‘Revenge!’ cried Rain-in-the-Face, “Revenge upon all the race Of the White Chief with yellow hair!” And the mountains dark and high From their crags reechoed the cry Of his anger and despair. He is now a man of peace; and the agent at Standing Rock, Dakota, writes, September 28, 1886: Rain-in-the-Face is very anxious to go to Hampton. I fear he is too old, but he desires very much to go. The Southern Workman, the organ of General Armstrong's Industrial School at Hampton, Va., says in a late number:— Rain-in-the-Face has applied before to come to Hampton, but his age would exclude him from the school as an ordinary student. He has shown himself very much in earnest about it, and is anxious, all say, to learn the better ways of life. It is as unusual as it is striking to see a man of his age, and one who has had such an experience, willing to give up the old way, and put himself in the position of a boy and a stu