Lower Sioux Agency
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The Lower Sioux Agency, or Redwood Agency, was the federal administrative center for the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in what became Redwood County, Minnesota, United States. It was the site of the
The Lower Sioux Agency warehouse from the northwest
The Lower Sioux Agency Interpretive Center
Andrew Myrick
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Andrew Jackson Myrick was an Indian agent, fur trader, and merchant who operated trading posts in southwest Minnesota at two Native American agencies serving the Dakota near the Minnesota River.
Lower Sioux Agency
…At a meeting of the Dakota, the U.S. government, and local traders, the Dakota representatives asked the representative of the government traders, Andrew J. Myrick, to sell them food on credit. His response was said to be, "So far as I am concerned, if they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung." On…
Myrick c. 1860