Jie xiong di ye
A historical vignette that I’d never heard of; from the Wikipedia page on the Great Famine in Ireland:
In 1847, midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845?1849), a group of American Indian Choctaws collected $710 … and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children. “It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and they had faced starvation… It was an amazing gesture.” according to Judy Allen, editor of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s newspaper, Bishinik, based at the Oklahoma Choctaw tribal headquarters in Durant, Oklahoma. To mark the 150th anniversary, eight Irish people retraced the Trail of Tears, and the donation was publicly commemorated by President Mary Robinson.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:07 am
That’s sort of beautiful.