Event overview
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Join us in looking at the history of reciprocity between the Choctaw and the Irish, and our transatlantic exchanges.
In the winter of 1847, as the people of Ireland were being struck by a devastating famine, the Choctaw Nation gathered together what meager funds they possessed following their traumatic forced removal from their tribal homelands during the Trail of Tears. Ultimately, they scraped together $170. Rather than buy badly needed resources – food, housing, and clothes – the tribe made the altogether remarkable decision to send the money to Ireland’s starving poor.
Professor LeAnne Howe (University of Georgia) and Dr Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths) will retell that powerful narrative, and will do so in order to examine notions of charity and empathy between the poor, the dislocated and the transient.
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Dates & times
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| 1 Jun 2016 | 6:45pm - 8:30pm |
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