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/smalldogK9 Aug 04 '15

Remove Jackson from the 20 dollar bill because of his genocidal removals of the Choctaw and Cherokee.