TIL Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, told starving natives to get grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth.

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Submitted February 17, 2018 at 06:03PM by apieysch http://ift.tt/2C4vxMG