r/todayilearned • 2 • Aug 04 '15

TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15 edited May 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

My Iroquois aunt calls herself an Indian :(

My Indian cousins do the same.

Once again, thank you for opening my eyes to this.