SIOUX UPRISING IN MINNESOTA

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Corrupt government officials began withholding provisions in 1862, Dakota children starved while government storehouses remained filled. Dakota resentment grew. Under the leadership of Little Crow, Dakota communities prepared for conflict, particularly following a series of insults by reservation agents, including Andrew Myrick's infamous remark: "So far as I am concerned, if they are hungry, let them eat grass".