Fun Fact!: Andrew J. Myrick was a trader, who alongside his wife, operated stores in southwest Minnesota at two Native American agencies serving the Dakota (referred to as Sioux at the time) near the Minnesota River.
In the summer of 1862, when the Dakota were starving because of failed crops and delayed annuity payments, Myrick is noted as refusing to sell them food on credit when they were starving, stating to the Sioux to “Eat grass if they were so hungry”
On August 18, 1862 Chief Little Crow led his warriors against U.S. settlements, beginning the Dakota War of 1862. When he was found days after the attack of the reservation, his head was severed from his body, with his mouth and asshole both filled with grass.
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