#47: A Transatlantic Act of Kindness

If you know your American history, you know that for large portions of it, the Native American tribes who inhabited this land before European settlers arrived have generally not been treated very well. I think no one could have blamed them if they had turned inward, focusing on dealing with their own trials and tribulations and just not having the bandwidth to think about other people’s problems.

But not the Choctaw tribe! Not long after they were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands, they learned about the potato famine in Ireland, which was causing starvation and death for many of the impoverished people of that nation. Though they had little themselves, they donated money to help people in a far-off land that most of them would never see. And the bond of friendship created by that act lasts to this day.