A GoFundMe campaign created to raise money for Navajo and Hopi families hit hard by the coronavirus has attracted donations from many Irish people, who are hoping to thank Native Americans for helping them during the "Great Hunger" famine that devastated Ireland in the mid-1800s.
According to the organizers of the GoFundMe, the Choctaw Nation provided $170 in relief money (thousands in today's dollars) to the Irish during the famine in 1845. The Native American donors were said to have been insp