TIL just 16 years after being forcibly relocated on the Trail of Tears, the Choctaw Nation donated $170 to help the starving victims of the Irish potato famine in 1847

http://www.choctawnation.com/history/choctaw-nation-history/choctaws-helped-starving-irish-in-1847-this-act-shaped-tribal-culture/



Submitted March 19, 2015 at 07:06PM by mike_pants http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zl01y/til_just_16_years_after_being_forcibly_relocated/