‘From Ireland with love’: Irish return centuries-old favour, help Indigenous Americans hit by coronavirus

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The solidarity between the two communities dates back to 1847, when the Choctaw Nation donated $170, the equivalent of thousands of dollars today, to help starving Irish people hit by the Great Famine

, one of the worst famines in history. “We have lost so many of our sacred Navajo elders and youth to COVID-19. It is truly devastating. And a dark time in history for our Nation,” Vanessa Tulley, one of the organizers of the GoFundMe online fundraising page, said on the website.

With high rates of diabetes, heart disease and obesity, which increase the risk of coronavirus complications, COVID-19 fatalities among the Navajos are twice the national per capita rate, Navajo Department of Health data shows. One in two Navajo residents were unemployed and one in three without running water, they added, making it difficult to wash their hands to ward off the virus.

 

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Yes, poor indigenous were 'helped' real good by the whites of Europe. Thye brought them all kinds of viruses, bacteria and who knows what. Is this COVI thing just a taste to you of what you gave them? Could be. Mother Earth works in mysterious ways.

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