Irish people are donating money to Native American communities grappling with the coronavirus pandemic to repay assistance one tribe gave during the Great Famine in Ireland more than a century ago.
In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation provided $170, which would be roughly $5,000 today, of relief aid to the Irish during the famine, not long after thousands of Native Americans died from starvation and disease while being forced to move west on the Trail of Tears. The organizers of a GoFundMe cam