Killing of Alights on the Cloud
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title:
Killing of Alights on the Cloud
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Alights on the Cloud (Cheyenne), also known as Touching Cloud, was killed in combat by one of the Pawnee during an intertribal battle in 1852. Alights on the Cloud was in the leading party of warriors in an attack on a hunting camp of Pawnee foes in what is now Kansas. He is known for riding into battle in an unusual sort of metal armor hidden under his war shirt, which stopped the arrows of the Pawnee. Alights on the Cloud developed a reputation of being safe from all harm, until one of the Paw
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Cheyenne warrior killed in 1852 battle with the Pawnee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alights_on_the_Cloud
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2023-07-31T22:13:13Z
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