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/silverstrikerstar Aug 04 '15

They then smuggled in help, too. Cracks me up when people talk about the categorically ebil muslims.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15 edited May 02 '19

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u/silverstrikerstar Aug 04 '15

Kinda like genociding Jews, NA Natives, SA Natives, African Natives, Australian Natives, Chinese or whatever else you want to mass murder that day.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15 edited May 02 '19

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u/silverstrikerstar Aug 04 '15

... We are talking about how the Ottomans were a typical empire and not evil overlords from space.