A Native American communities strongly influenced by COVID-19 blast outpour receive donations from Irish to return to the front of a historic performance of 173 years. In 1847, the Native American Choctaw Nation sent $170 ($5,000 today) of relief supplies to the Irish people affected by famine. Now the Irish are the act of good will and forth donating funds to the Navajo Nation, which was heavily influenced by COVID-19, with at least 2,373 cases and 73 death from May 3. The Navajo nation has one of the highest infection rates capita in the United States. It is reported its first two cases on March 17 and has since increased the number of cases continued to increase. Up to 40% of people living in the nation, it has no access to running water in their homes and 10% do not have electricity. A GoFundMe campaign donations for bulk food products and medical supplies have already reached $1,769,300, thanks to a large part of Irish donors. “From an Irish brother in our Native American brothers,” he writes James Fallon donor to the campaign page. “Karma always comes back around.” It is said that to monitor in 1847, the Choctaw Nation on the famine by an Irish man, hear again the Indian removal. At that time, people Choctaw among the 60,000 Native Americans who had been displaced from their ancestral homes recently. Despite its limited resources, the Choctaw Nation decided to help and sent by means of purchase food have been used blankets and fodder for livestock. The Irish people will never forget this act of generosity. called in 2017, a sculpture of nine Kindred Spirits eagle feathers was Bailick Park Midlton, County Cork, Ireland unveiled. The following year, the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced a scholarship program for young Choctaw, the relationship between the two communities by calling He added “a sacred bond … This is our peoples together forever.” “you act the quality will never been and will never be forgotten in Ireland.” image by Niall Carson copyright-Getty
Irish send money to Historic Native American communities hit by COVID-19 Return Favor
