The donation amounted to the equivalent of about €4,000 in today’s money. He wants to continue living out those values and that legacy that his people started 170 years ago when his people gathered what money they could to send across the Atlantic to help the hungry in Ireland. Speaking before meeting Ireland’s own chief, President Michael D Higgins, at Áras an Uachtaráin, Gary Batton said that his Oklahoma tribe has a tradition of giving “without seeking things in return”. For the Chief of the Choctaw Nation, the Native American tribe, their donation of $170 to send food relief to the starving in Ireland during the Famine in 1847 captures his people’s humanitarian spirit.
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