Irish return a 173-year-old favor to Native American tribes
May 5, 2020 22:52:32 #
Co-Vid 19 brings positive in all its negative~~From around the World we see Humanity at its finest with an opportunity to say Thank You...
We need to see, feel and live more of this than what has been~~
A lovely reminder of what really matters..Kindness and generosity..(LOVE)đź’‹
Reminds me of a quote that had always stayed with me~~
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
DUBLIN — More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. In recent decades, ties between Ireland and the Native American tribe have grown.
Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two tribes suffering in the C****-** p******c. As of Tuesday, the fundraiser has raised more than $1.8 million to help supply clean water, food and health supplies to people in the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Reservation, according to organizers, though it was not clear how much of the money has come from Irish donors.
Many donors cited the generosity of the Choctaws, noting that the gift came not long after the U.S. government forcibly relocated the tribe and several other American Indian groups from the Southeastern United States, a march across thousands of miles known as the Trail of Tears that left thousands of people dead along the way.
“I’d already known what the Choctaw did in the famine, so short a time after they’d been through the Trail of Tears,” Sean Callahan, 43, an Apple administrator in Cork City who made a donation, said Tuesday. “It always struck me for its kindness and generosity and I see that too in the Irish people. It seemed the right time to try and pay it back in kind.”
On Sunday the organizers wrote in praise of “acts of kindness from indigenous ancestors passed being reciprocated nearly 200 years later through blood memory and interconnectedness”
“Thank you, IRELAND, for showing solidarity and being here for us,” one said on the GoFundMe page.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/irish-return-a-173-year-old-favor-to-native-american-tribes/%3famp=1
We need to see, feel and live more of this than what has been~~
A lovely reminder of what really matters..Kindness and generosity..(LOVE)đź’‹
Reminds me of a quote that had always stayed with me~~
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
DUBLIN — More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. In recent decades, ties between Ireland and the Native American tribe have grown.
Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two tribes suffering in the C****-** p******c. As of Tuesday, the fundraiser has raised more than $1.8 million to help supply clean water, food and health supplies to people in the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Reservation, according to organizers, though it was not clear how much of the money has come from Irish donors.
Many donors cited the generosity of the Choctaws, noting that the gift came not long after the U.S. government forcibly relocated the tribe and several other American Indian groups from the Southeastern United States, a march across thousands of miles known as the Trail of Tears that left thousands of people dead along the way.
“I’d already known what the Choctaw did in the famine, so short a time after they’d been through the Trail of Tears,” Sean Callahan, 43, an Apple administrator in Cork City who made a donation, said Tuesday. “It always struck me for its kindness and generosity and I see that too in the Irish people. It seemed the right time to try and pay it back in kind.”
On Sunday the organizers wrote in praise of “acts of kindness from indigenous ancestors passed being reciprocated nearly 200 years later through blood memory and interconnectedness”
“Thank you, IRELAND, for showing solidarity and being here for us,” one said on the GoFundMe page.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/irish-return-a-173-year-old-favor-to-native-american-tribes/%3famp=1
May 5, 2020 23:29:50 #
May 6, 2020 10:31:18 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Beautiful 
Isn't it though... A beautiful story started in the 1800s never forgotten...And involving another country far away yet right here too..
May 6, 2020 10:33:58 #
lindajoy wrote:
Isn't it though... A beautiful story started in the 1800s never forgotten...And involving another country far away yet right here too..
Shows how communities can be connected...
Without that connection being forged by politicians and government edict...
May 6, 2020 10:37:28 #
May 6, 2020 10:38:07 #
Coos Bay Tom
Loc: coos bay oregon
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Shows how communities can be connected...
Without that connection being forged by politicians and government edict...
Without that connection being forged by politicians and government edict...
May 6, 2020 10:39:33 #
Coos Bay Tom
Loc: coos bay oregon
People helping each other is what will bring us out of this crisis.
May 6, 2020 20:53:56 #
lindajoy wrote:
Co-Vid 19 brings positive in all its negative~~Fro... (show quote)
great article please post more!
May 7, 2020 07:46:21 #
nwtk2007 wrote:
Very cool.
Thank You, nwtk~~All relevant and shows we can rise above the h**e, division, blame, and allow what we’re best at..Helping one another and coming together...,💞
May 7, 2020 07:47:04 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Shows how communities can be connected...
Without that connection being forged by politicians and government edict...
Without that connection being forged by politicians and government edict...
Amen, CD...
May 7, 2020 07:48:53 #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
People helping each other is what will bring us out of this crisis.
T***h, right there.. I just wish it didn’t take some sort of catastrophe to either show us or remind us..
We are better than that, I really do believe this of people..
May 7, 2020 08:00:29 #
77Reaganite wrote:
great article please post more!
Thank You, 77Reaganite...I will...
May 9, 2020 03:35:57 #
lindajoy wrote:
Co-Vid 19 brings positive in all its negative~~Fro... (show quote)
Lindajoy,
please check your history, specifically the Chocktaw tribe, this never happened and the Irish people never received the $170 from the Chocktaw.
However, the potato famine was real and caused by the legendary Irish distaste for eating fish, can you believe they would rather die of hunger than eat the effing fish?
I know, my mother-in-lawhails from County York (she is a royalist), but she won't touch fish, that's why her spine totally collapsed - no calcium in her life.
Yet another "blarney stone" BS, check it out, please.
May 9, 2020 08:00:27 #
newbear wrote:
Lindajoy, br br please check your history, specif... (show quote)
History sees the recording of past as experienced.. Celebrated for years on end thereafter and building bonds..
I find nothing that denies it didn’t happen with more that state it did.... I believe it did and will accept it as such...
Sorry to read of your mother in laws misfortune...Fish isn’t all there is to build strong bones tho...Milk, yogurt, and cheese are great sources of calcium, Black beans, tofu, peanuts, and Broccoli, etc.. A picky eater??
https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5833592/native-american-irish-famine/%3famp=true
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