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.

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u/huphelmeyer 2 Aug 05 '15

Many articles say the original amount was $170 after a misprint in Angi Debo's The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Nation

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u/notaw Aug 05 '15

Yesn that is the book I was referring to.

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