Toronto researchers help uncover Ontario First Nations' donations to Irish Famine relief fund

[Spazito]

Researchers say newly discovered archival records reveal an important connection between Ontario First Nations and Irish famine victims.

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McGowan says the documents show Mohawks, Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations, Chippewa, Delaware, Wyandotte, and Mississauga peoples had donated £115, an amount equivalent to $12,426 today.

With further donations from the Saugeen, Ojibwa of Lake Huron, and Moravian Ojibwa, the total Indigenous gift to the relief fund was £165, or $17,978 in today's Canadian currency. Some of these contributions came from Indigenous communities in Quebec.

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Duke Redbird, an elder from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation says his own community donated to the fund.

"They were as generous as they could be even though our people were in a pretty desperate situation themselves," he said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-first-nations-irish-famine-donations-1.7143918

[niyad]

1. This was actually written about in May 2020, as Ireland returned the

favour of help during the famine by aiding First Nations people during the pandemic. NYT article, May 5, 2020. Beautiful photo of the "Kindred Spirits" memorial.

[3auld6phart]

2. Its a shame

So many joined the US Army in joined in the Genocide of the American indigenous tribes.Some of the U.S. tribes also donated momey to the Irish famine sufferers.. a 2xs gtreat uncle was a. Union Cavalry officer during the Civil war, stayed in and eventually bought the farm in 1876. Little Big Horn. There is a monument in Ireland dedicated t he Cherokee , I think. In thosdays that was a sizeable amont of coin.