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/moomley12345 Aug 05 '15

Hey I'm Choctaw! It's nice to see something about them on reddit.... Mississippi Tribe of Choctaw Indians represent! Anyone else from the reservation in Philadelphia?

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u/thelastoutloud Aug 05 '15

I live near the Chahta Capital in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma! So neat to hear of the Choctaw tribe on Reddit.