Good point, but may be difficult to research. But this did get through : Donation A well remembered donation to famine relief was that made by the Choctaw tribe of American Indians who in 1847 sent a donation of $710, the equivalent of more than $100,000 today. They had a special affinity with the hungry and those who had lost their homes, since it was only 16 years since their tribe had walked the "Trail of Tears" from Oklahoma to Mississippi, along which many of them died. This extraordinary gift from a people who were not themselves wealthy has never been forgotten. In 1997, the 150th anniversary of that generous gesture a group of Irish people walked the 500 mile Trail of Tears in reverse, back to the Choctaw homeland, and in so doing raised over $100,000 for Famine relief in Somalia. On 12/13/08, Roland Young <skepglen@yor.net> wrote: > > Does anyone have info. on how much food was sent to the Irish people from > the USA in the famine that they didn't GET? > Roland > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >