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        1. Andrew J. Myrick was a trader, who with his Dakota wife, operated stores in southwest Minnesota at two Native American agencies serving the Dakota near the Minnesota River.
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        3. Andrew J. Myrick (May 28, – August 18, ), was a trader who, with his Dakota wife (Winyangewin/Nancy Myrick), operated a store in southwest.
        4. Brief Life History of Andrew.

          5. Andrew Myrick

          American trader

          Andrew J. Myrick (May 28, – August 18, ) was a trader, who with his Dakota wife (Winyangewin/Nancy Myrick), 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 , 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 and being described on that account as the "most hated of the traders".[1] He was alleged to have said of the Dakota, "Let them eat grass."[2] The validity of that quotation is now disputed.[3]

          Background

          In the summer of , eastern bands of the Dakota people were living in a small reservation along the southern bank of the Minnesota River.

          Their crops had failed and the area had been overhunted, and they were starving. In a meeting at the Upper Sioux Agency on August 4, US I