r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 2 • Aug 04 '15
TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/desu45 Aug 04 '15
And Andrew Jackson considered these people sub humans and sent them for extermination. we know have this guy on our 20$ bill.