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The Unlikely, Enduring Friendship Between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation

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Sep 7, 2023 at 12:41pmWeb
Show thread86dSep 7, 2023

apnews.com/…/2020-tokyo-olympics-sports-coronavir…

Another cool story about this friendship.

Friendship between Ireland, tribes lives on in lacrosse

More than 170 years ago, a U.S. tribe did Ireland a solid. The European country has not forgotten it.

AP News
Show threadCurious CanidSep 7, 2023
Incidents like this are what humanity is really about. It’s easy to get frustrated and cynical, but the worst of us are generally the most visible. The majority are quietly decent people.
Show threadarchiotterpupSep 7, 2023
Shared trauma from being genocided by the same group does that.