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    The document summarizes the potato famine that occurred in Ireland in the mid-19th century. It states that the potato crops were destroyed by disease, which was the primary food source for poor Irish people. As a result, over one million Irish people starved to death or emigrated to places like the US, Australia, and England. It also discusses how the Choctaw Native American tribe donated money to the starving Irish in 1847, as they could empathize having been forcibly removed from their homeland along the "Trail of Tears" only 16 years prior. In recognition of this generosity, Irish people walked the Trail of Tears in reverse in 1997 for the 150th anniversary.

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    The document summarizes the potato famine that occurred in Ireland in the mid-19th century. It states that the potato crops were destroyed by disease, which was the primary food source for poor Irish people. As a result, over one million Irish people starved to death or emigrated to places like the US, Australia, and England. It also discusses how the Choctaw Native American tribe donated money to the starving Irish in 1847, as they could empathize having been forcibly removed from their homeland along the "Trail of Tears" only 16 years prior. In recognition of this generosity, Irish people walked the Trail of Tears in reverse in 1997 for the 150th anniversary.

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    Irish Potato Famine

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    The document summarizes the potato famine that occurred in Ireland in the mid-19th century. It states that the potato crops were destroyed by disease, which was the primary food source for poor Irish people. As a result, over one million Irish people starved to death or emigrated to places like the US, Australia, and England. It also discusses how the Choctaw Native American tribe donated money to the starving Irish in 1847, as they could empathize having been forcibly removed from their homeland along the "Trail of Tears" only 16 years prior. In recognition of this generosity, Irish people walked the Trail of Tears in reverse in 1997 for the 150th anniversary.

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    Irish f la g
    In the mid-nineteenth century the potato crops (récoltes)
    were destroyed by a disease.
    As it was the only source of food for poor Irish people,
    many people starved to death*.

    It is estimated that more than a million died and


    as a consequence many emigrated to the USA,
    Australia and England.
    * (mourir de faim)

    Potato blight

    The Trail of Tears


    The Choctaw Donation
    In 1847, The Choctaw tribe (tribu) of American Indians
    sent a generous donation to the starving Irish.

    They had a special affinity with the hungry and those


    who had lost their homes because it was only 16 years
    since their tribe had walked the « Trail of Tears »*
    from Mississippi to Oklahoma.

    This extraordinary gift (cadeau) from a people who were


    not themselves wealthy (= rich)has never been forgotten.

    In 1997 – the 150th anniversary of that generous gesture -


    a group of Irish people walked the Trail of Tears in reverse,
    back to the Choctaw homeland.

    (* ' La Piste des Larmes' = forced removal (déplacement) of Native


    Americans (Indians) by the US government)
    Pr esent day
    Okla homa

    T he Trai l of Tear s

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