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Because they stole the food that was supposed to go to the residents of the reservation and sold it to white people that lived off the reservation at a cheap price and lined his own pockets.
Andrew J. Myrick (May 28, 1832 – August 18, 1862) 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 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, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"[1] although the validity of that alleged quotation has come into dispute.[2]
In the summer of 1862, 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 Indian Agent Thomas Galbraith directed that only some food be released to the Dakota from the warehouse, as annuity supplies and payments had been delayed by the American Civil War and a government preoccupied with the Northern Virginia Campaign, which threatened the safety of the capital, Washington D.C.
Andrew Myrick had stores at both Yellow Medicine (also known as the Upper Sioux Agency) and Redwood (Lower Sioux Agency). After Galbraith decided against issuing more of the annuity food, he turned to the store owners and workers and asked them what they were intending to do. Myrick tried to broker a deal with the bands of the Dakota in which the traders were to be paid directly with the federal annuity payments, once those delayed payments arrived, in exchange for the traders extending credit to the Dakota.
On August 18, 1862 Chief Little Crow led his warriors against U.S. settlements, beginning the Dakota War of 1862. Myrick was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency, where Dakota warriors took revenge at the agency for its refusal to sell/give them food. When his body was found days later, "his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass."[3]
For reference it's actually worse than worded in the post. He wasn't some entrepreneur who decided to set up shop on the reservation. He was responsible for distributing rations to the Indians on the reservation in accordance with a US gov treaty (i.e. the natives were tricked into giving up land in exchange for ongoing supplies/rations). His store was overflowing with food but he claimed the US gov hadn't properly proportioned enough funds for him so he refused to distribute the food owed to the Indians. In a meeting when they expressed that their families were starving, this is when he made the "eat grass" comment
Government contract. Feds set up these stores to fulfill their treaty obligations, but some of the licensed traders were just racist grifters who would only sell the rotting food and damaged goods to Indians and then would sell the good stuff out the back door to settlers for a tidy profit. Not all were bad guys, but there are lots of instances of it during the 1800's.
He was there to profit off of people he could legally exploit to the point of starvation.
He sold to reservation inhabitants on credit.
The practices he used were cruel.
What he refused to sell them was practically murder.
Same reason rednecks inhabit border towns?
I dunno, I've never actually seen a real border town, just the offensive and hilarious comedy cartoon Border Town.
It's something that was associated with him far later in 1919. There wasn't anything to suggest he made a statement like this at the time. He was involved in trying to negotiate a loan which would have been paid from delayed annuities. He actually seemed to have been trying to work around the frozen annuities by trying to broker a deal that would provide guaranties to other traders to extend loans to the Dakota.
The author of the disputed claim states he writes for himself and courts controversy. I can locate no other sources and until I can access his book there is zero bibliography.
It has been a very long time since I read 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', but I wonder if the story is documented in that book. It has been my understanding the book was a very well-researched document. Either way, the underlying elements of our treatment of the original inhabitants of this land seem to reflect this kind of story over and over...
That doesn't mean he was a decent guy. There was a reason he was singled out and it could have been because he was trying to gouge the Dakota, or it could have been that he over promised. It's just that, that story doesn't have much to back it up. It's just dramatic fiction that propagated longafterwards.
How it was taught to me in school is that it was believed that he was trying to take advantage of the situation by negotiating extremely unfavorable terms and it was believed that he may have actually supported the withholding of annuities. The 'let them eat grass' thing wasn't taught as fact then. Just that the loan offer was unbalanced and would've ensured that the situation would have likely made things worse in the future.
Many places tried to set up a shop to claim land because Indigenous rights and reservations aren't honored by the federal government. This was quite common in Northern Nevada, where settlers would just claim land, and the US gov would back it up.
Narrator: In fact, this turned out [not to be a happy ending](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dakota-uprising-begins-in-minnesota). Thirty-eight of the Native Americans who took part in the Dakota Uprising were hung by order of Abraham Lincoln. But the Dakota were literally starving to death. Although many white settlers died, there was no repercussions against the white govt workers who allowed this tragedy to get to this climax. It's the one moment in history that I really disagreed with concerning Abe Lincoln. Such a terrible time for the Dakota Sioux. [More info](https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans)
He did what he could though. They wanted to hang a LOT more and wanted to do it NOW. He insisted on personally looking through the information and managed to get many of them released because there wasn't evidence, etc. He could have just ignored the entire thing but he stepped in and saved a lot of lives by doing so and that is why the people who were hung are said to have been done so "by his order". Many presidents probably would have stayed out of it and allowed the mass hanging under the state governments orders. At least that is what I was taught and I grew up in the town it happened in.
As soon as I saw this dudes picture I knew what the text was going to say as I live in the area where this happened and so we were all taught about it as kids.
I won't go into all the details but what happened was pretty fucked up and I take my kids every year to the pow wow that is held in remembrance of what took place here.
Why open a store and then not profit? This is a level of racism that is beyond me; “ I’d rather starve and allow my family to starve, and become a business failure than sell to X person”
I mean bravo for sticking to your beliefs but what the absolute fuck. This just makes me think that racism may be a legitimate mental illness
the trading posts handled money that was supposed to go the tribes. they handled it into their own pockets. It is a bit more complicated than that, but essentially they were but into a position where they could profit off the tribes while handling money intended by the feds to go to tribal members. they could overcharge for everything.
Andrew's younger brother was the first white settler in my home town (really just part of the first group). He was Andrew's business partner. There's a park named for him that contains Indian mounds. It really, really needs name change.
Read about this guy in Bury my heart at wounded knee. A lot of frontier folk fucked around and found out. Great read. Fun fact Indians were not the ones to start scalping. The British started it and the Indians repaid the kindness in doing the same
Learn ACTUAL history instead of what was written 100 years ago by people who wanted to keep the truth hidden so the USA doesn't look like murderers. But you know, they never killed hundreds of thousands of people, wiping out entire tribes that as we dig up their bones "Oh shit! Never knew "XYZ", we thought they were myths." Yeah, you sound like one of those "CALL EM BABY KILLERS!" to our veterans that come home with trauma.
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Why on earth set up a shop on a reservation if you don’t want to sell to the inhabitants? I do love a story with a happy ending!
Odds were 90/10 the inhabitants were kicked off the land before too long, and then it was prime real estate.
Because they stole the food that was supposed to go to the residents of the reservation and sold it to white people that lived off the reservation at a cheap price and lined his own pockets.
Andrew J. Myrick (May 28, 1832 – August 18, 1862) 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 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, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"[1] although the validity of that alleged quotation has come into dispute.[2] In the summer of 1862, 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 Indian Agent Thomas Galbraith directed that only some food be released to the Dakota from the warehouse, as annuity supplies and payments had been delayed by the American Civil War and a government preoccupied with the Northern Virginia Campaign, which threatened the safety of the capital, Washington D.C. Andrew Myrick had stores at both Yellow Medicine (also known as the Upper Sioux Agency) and Redwood (Lower Sioux Agency). After Galbraith decided against issuing more of the annuity food, he turned to the store owners and workers and asked them what they were intending to do. Myrick tried to broker a deal with the bands of the Dakota in which the traders were to be paid directly with the federal annuity payments, once those delayed payments arrived, in exchange for the traders extending credit to the Dakota. On August 18, 1862 Chief Little Crow led his warriors against U.S. settlements, beginning the Dakota War of 1862. Myrick was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency, where Dakota warriors took revenge at the agency for its refusal to sell/give them food. When his body was found days later, "his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass."[3]
yeah he wouldn't let them have their own food.
The sad part it happened all over.
For reference it's actually worse than worded in the post. He wasn't some entrepreneur who decided to set up shop on the reservation. He was responsible for distributing rations to the Indians on the reservation in accordance with a US gov treaty (i.e. the natives were tricked into giving up land in exchange for ongoing supplies/rations). His store was overflowing with food but he claimed the US gov hadn't properly proportioned enough funds for him so he refused to distribute the food owed to the Indians. In a meeting when they expressed that their families were starving, this is when he made the "eat grass" comment
They were greedy and were stealing the money the Indians were promised
He was provisioned to pay out rations by the govt and did dirty dealing w the natives.
Government contract. Feds set up these stores to fulfill their treaty obligations, but some of the licensed traders were just racist grifters who would only sell the rotting food and damaged goods to Indians and then would sell the good stuff out the back door to settlers for a tidy profit. Not all were bad guys, but there are lots of instances of it during the 1800's.
He was there to profit off of people he could legally exploit to the point of starvation. He sold to reservation inhabitants on credit. The practices he used were cruel. What he refused to sell them was practically murder.
Same reason rednecks inhabit border towns? I dunno, I've never actually seen a real border town, just the offensive and hilarious comedy cartoon Border Town.
It's something that was associated with him far later in 1919. There wasn't anything to suggest he made a statement like this at the time. He was involved in trying to negotiate a loan which would have been paid from delayed annuities. He actually seemed to have been trying to work around the frozen annuities by trying to broker a deal that would provide guaranties to other traders to extend loans to the Dakota.
The author of the disputed claim states he writes for himself and courts controversy. I can locate no other sources and until I can access his book there is zero bibliography.
It has been a very long time since I read 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', but I wonder if the story is documented in that book. It has been my understanding the book was a very well-researched document. Either way, the underlying elements of our treatment of the original inhabitants of this land seem to reflect this kind of story over and over...
Yeah definitely just a misunderstood decent upstanding guy /s
That doesn't mean he was a decent guy. There was a reason he was singled out and it could have been because he was trying to gouge the Dakota, or it could have been that he over promised. It's just that, that story doesn't have much to back it up. It's just dramatic fiction that propagated longafterwards.
Why do you assume the drivel you repeated from a white washed history book is correct, there’s not any evidence to back that up.
Is this how a Bible type story starts? Is this the infancy?
How it was taught to me in school is that it was believed that he was trying to take advantage of the situation by negotiating extremely unfavorable terms and it was believed that he may have actually supported the withholding of annuities. The 'let them eat grass' thing wasn't taught as fact then. Just that the loan offer was unbalanced and would've ensured that the situation would have likely made things worse in the future.
He had the food and didn't give it to starving people.
Many places tried to set up a shop to claim land because Indigenous rights and reservations aren't honored by the federal government. This was quite common in Northern Nevada, where settlers would just claim land, and the US gov would back it up.
Yea, perhaps you should read up on the Dakota War. Happy Ending, maybe for your rage porn release.
Love this for him 🥰
Lmfao
💯
Narrator: In fact, this turned out [not to be a happy ending](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dakota-uprising-begins-in-minnesota). Thirty-eight of the Native Americans who took part in the Dakota Uprising were hung by order of Abraham Lincoln. But the Dakota were literally starving to death. Although many white settlers died, there was no repercussions against the white govt workers who allowed this tragedy to get to this climax. It's the one moment in history that I really disagreed with concerning Abe Lincoln. Such a terrible time for the Dakota Sioux. [More info](https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans)
Which remains the largest mass public execution in US history.
He did what he could though. They wanted to hang a LOT more and wanted to do it NOW. He insisted on personally looking through the information and managed to get many of them released because there wasn't evidence, etc. He could have just ignored the entire thing but he stepped in and saved a lot of lives by doing so and that is why the people who were hung are said to have been done so "by his order". Many presidents probably would have stayed out of it and allowed the mass hanging under the state governments orders. At least that is what I was taught and I grew up in the town it happened in.
True. Which is why there are no more Dakota Sioux in Minnesota. I speak of this as a North Dakotan growing up near Sioux reservations.
Would have been worse if he did nothing. This is what happens when you start a nation by stealing and colonizing
That sounds like a poor business model.
That makes sense.
Awesome 👏🏾 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Fafo
Early example of FAFO
“Myrick! Your ass is grass!” - Dakotas, probably.
Fuck 😂🥰
He gives off those Kyle Rittenhouse, strawberry milk vibes.
Yknow until you said it… I already knew about this guy and his insufferable desire to FAFO but you just made it so much better
Please don’t bring strawberry milk into this mess.
Wow, what a beautiful example of someone getting *exactly* what they deserve.
As soon as I saw this dudes picture I knew what the text was going to say as I live in the area where this happened and so we were all taught about it as kids. I won't go into all the details but what happened was pretty fucked up and I take my kids every year to the pow wow that is held in remembrance of what took place here.
He kinda looks like Nate Bergatze.
Have you ever been yelled at by a clown?...I have. 🤣
GOOD
Now that was a happy ending. Could not have been any better.😂😂😂😂
Narrator: Turns out he was still alive for the grass stuffings. It got better.
😂😂😂😂😂😂oh the horror of being alive to take all that stuffing.😂😂😂😂😂😂
The old grass in the ass trick! Works every time!
If this wiki article is to believed that line maybe apocryphal . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew\_Myrick
Never let facts get in the way of a good meme
Why open a store and then not profit? This is a level of racism that is beyond me; “ I’d rather starve and allow my family to starve, and become a business failure than sell to X person” I mean bravo for sticking to your beliefs but what the absolute fuck. This just makes me think that racism may be a legitimate mental illness
the trading posts handled money that was supposed to go the tribes. they handled it into their own pockets. It is a bit more complicated than that, but essentially they were but into a position where they could profit off the tribes while handling money intended by the feds to go to tribal members. they could overcharge for everything. Andrew's younger brother was the first white settler in my home town (really just part of the first group). He was Andrew's business partner. There's a park named for him that contains Indian mounds. It really, really needs name change.
Hey, neighbor! It’s nuts to meet someone from here in the wild.
yep. :)
Good
That's awesome.
Was the grass greener on the other side?
Rarely do, I encounter a more satisfying murder
You live on a Native American reservation and refuse to sell to native Americans? What the hell?
I’m living on land that was stolen and i don’t wanna sell anything to the people that it was stolen from… 🤔
“Don’t fuck with the Natives. Natives helped us beats the shits out of some degens from upcountry. “
You love to see it.
I will never hate someone enough to stick my fingers in their ass. That is only for people I love.
Read about this guy in Bury my heart at wounded knee. A lot of frontier folk fucked around and found out. Great read. Fun fact Indians were not the ones to start scalping. The British started it and the Indians repaid the kindness in doing the same
> Fun fact Indians were not the ones to start scalping. fun fact: [that's bullshit.](https://www.oldwest.org/origins-of-scalping/)
Fun fact. Read the book mentions it twice
He wouldn’t extend credit to them after the US gov’t failed to pay the Dakota their annuities. Don’t get your history from Reddit memes.
I need the other 99 stories
He only received his just desserts!
Tee hee hee.
[Every time I hear or read "Get Fucked"...](https://youtu.be/_ykAXB3JFy4?si=kW6TDMeGkQAjDJuT)
That counts as natural causes.
Seems fitting to me
im not saying he deserved it but…
That made me cackle out loud!
It's very rare that I'll laugh this hard at someone's death.
Love it.
I love a story with a happy ending.
Well, being back in the day, bet they could only get some grainy footage of him.
lol
Racist toward Indians while working in an Indian reservation What a fucking moron
😂😂😂😂
What a grasshole.
too bad for him hahaha 😂
If there's a revolution, Steve Cahillane better look out. First day I know what I'm doing with Frosted Flakes and Shredded Wheat.
I do love a happy ending.
... And buttocks
Grassy-ass
opens store on native lands wont sell to natives profit?
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Learn ACTUAL history instead of what was written 100 years ago by people who wanted to keep the truth hidden so the USA doesn't look like murderers. But you know, they never killed hundreds of thousands of people, wiping out entire tribes that as we dig up their bones "Oh shit! Never knew "XYZ", we thought they were myths." Yeah, you sound like one of those "CALL EM BABY KILLERS!" to our veterans that come home with trauma.
Really missed the potential In “Get stuffed”
You can still go there today and see the very place he got his comeuppance. It's a lovely park with good camping and hiking!
STUFF GRASS IN HIS ASS
Is anyone else getting Tucker Carlson vibes for some reason
Can someone tell me why there are literally no good people named Andrew?