The Choctaw saw the need to help their fellow minorities…
Great Irish Famine aid (1847)[edit]
Choctaw Stickball Player, Painted by George Catlin, 1834
Midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaws collected $710 (although many articles say the original amount was $170 after a misprint in Angie Debo‘s The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic) 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. By today’s standards, it might be a million dollars,” according to Judy Allen, editor of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s newspaper, Bishinik. The paper is based at the Oklahoma Choctaw tribal headquarters in Durant, Okla. To mark the 150th anniversary, eight Irish people retraced the Trail of Tears.[21]
Ferguson states, “1903 MISS: Three-hundred Mississippi Choctaws were persuaded to remove to the Nation in Oklahoma.”[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma