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In 1847 the Choctaw Indian Nation collected $170 dollars in Scullyville Oklahoma which they forwarded to a US Famine Relief Fund to aid the Irish. The original articles mention that the Choctaw learned of this from "Newspapers, and refugees" in person and that the donation was the "Most generous" of all the donations received (guessing that this means the largest single donation to the fund). Commentary:
My father (died 1989) told me long ago (1960s) that the Cherokee had made a collection to help the starving Irish during the potato famine (1845-48). The Cherokee had lost their land in the East a decade earlier and had been exiled to "Indian Territory".
Since then I heard that it was the Choctaw (who had also been exiled from the East in the 1830s) who began this collection. I understand that they and the Cherokee were planted in the same area of "Indian Territory" and perhaps they all contributed.
I have no idea how they would have learned about events more than 5,000 miles away in Ireland, but I suspect that the Society of Friends (Quaker) information network may have helped.
Anyway, it is shameful for us to recall that so many Irish, a generation later, participated in the oppression of the first nations - quite a number of Irish names are found among that crowd (Sheridan, Keogh, ...) -
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