Kindred Spirits, a sculpture in the Irish town of Midletown, commemorates the donation sent to the Irish by the Choctaw people in 1847. Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020 by Charlene Cain ← Previous Next → The tribes had suffered greatly and had very little. But when the Choctaw nation heard about the suffering of the Irish people during the potato famine, they pulled together a donation of $170—around $5000 in today’s dollars—to send to Ireland.