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More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 from Oklahoma to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor.
\nNow hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two tribes suffering in the Covid-19 pandemic. As of Tuesday, the fund-raiser has raised nearly $1.8 million to help supply clean water, food and health supplies to people in the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Reservation in the Southwest, according to the organizers.
\nMany donors cited the generosity of the Choctaws, noting that the gift came not long after the United States government forcibly relocated the tribe and several other American Indian groups from the Southeastern United States, a march known as the Trail of Tears that left many dead along the way.
\n\u201cI\u2019d already known what the Choctaw did in the famine, so short a time after they\u2019d been through the Trail of Tears,\u201d Sean Callahan, 43, an Apple administrator in Cork City who made a donation, said on Tuesday. \u201cIt always struck me for its kindness and generosity and I see that too in the Irish people. It seemed the right time to try and pay it back in kind.\u201d
\nOn Sunday the organizers wrote on the page on Sunday that, \u201cacts of kindness from indigenous ancestors passed being reciprocated nearly 200 years later through blood memory and interconnectedness. Thank you, IRELAND, for showing solidarity and being here for us.\u201d
\nGary Batton, chief of the Choctaw Nation Oklahoma, said in a statement that the tribe was \u201cgratified \u2014 and perhaps not at all surprised \u2014 to learn of the assistance our special friends, the Irish, are giving to the Navajo and Hopi nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 from Oklahoma to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two <\/p>\n

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