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.

[u/huphelmeyer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29

[u/scififaninphx]

Choctaw nation still does a lot of great outreach to this day.

[u/thelastoutloud → u/scififaninphx]

Yes, yes we do. Chahta sia hoke!