May 8, 2020

'Iyyikowa': Irish donate to tribes 173 years after Choctaw Nation assistance

Author: Derrick James STAFF WRITER

Two Native American tribes in the southwestern United States hit hard by COVID-19 are receiving help from citizens of a country thousands of miles away inspired by the Choctaw Nation's act of kindness more than 170 years ago.
The Navajo Nation, which has more than 356,000 members and tribal lands in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, reported more than 2,500 confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 80 deaths, according to tribal health officials. Officials with the Hopi Nation, which has tribal lands i