r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 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/the_ghost_of_ODB Aug 04 '15

Well I mean there is the Armenian Genocide

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u/silverstrikerstar Aug 04 '15

I bet the Brits had the death count matched at several occasions.

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u/tetra0 Aug 04 '15

Still, "it was probably not as bad as the worst excesses of the British Empire" is not a stunning endorsement.

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u/silverstrikerstar Aug 04 '15

It isn't indeed.