Navajo Nation donating extra PPE to India.

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

[Duppers]

2. Good one! 😁

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Bless you folks!

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3. So much goodness to report, from the Navajo-Irish help back and forth over 173 years to this....

Makes me cry, but so impressed.

https://navajotimes.com/ae/irish-pay-forward-173-year-old-favor/
Irish ‘pay forward’ 173-year-old favor


The sculpture “Kindred Spirits” in County Cork, Ireland, commemorates a donation from the Choctaw tribe to the people of Ireland in 1847.

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In 1847, the Choctaw Tribe, fresh off the Trail of Tears and struggling to put down roots in its new home in what is now Oklahoma, heard about another country across the sea where the people were also oppressed and hungry.

From their extremely limited resources, they raised $170 — the equivalent of about $5,000 today — and sent it to Ireland to help with food relief to offset the Potato Famine.

The Irish, apparently, have not forgotten that act of kindness. A few days ago, the Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund, a grassroots effort to get food and water to homebound elders during the pandemic, noticed a swell in donations to its GoFundMe page — and almost all the new money was coming from Ireland. “At first we thought we had been hacked,” said Cassandra Begay, the group’s communication director. But after making some inquiries, they tracked the new donations — which so far have totaled about $500,000 and are still coming in — back to a Twitter exchange between an Irish news reporter and a Diné engineer.

On Sunday, Naomi O’Leary, European correspondent for the Irish Times, had tweeted, “Native Americans raised a huge amount in famine relief for Ireland at a time when they had very little. It’s time for us to come through for them now.” Jumping on the opportunity, Aaron Yazzie of Los Angeles responded by tweeting the web address of the relief fund’s GoFundMe page.

The donations, ranging from $10 to more than $1,000 each, started pouring in immediately, and haven’t stopped. “We’re so grateful to the ancestors of the Choctaw Nation for their generosity generations ago, and to the Irish people for paying it forward,” said Begay. “It just goes to show the interconnectness of everything, which is our concept of k’e, and that a simple act of kindness can be profound.”

Begay said she was able to thank O’Leary when a UK radio show called Monday and had them both on. “I introduced myself in Navajo, so our language is all over Europe now,” she said, “and people were posting comments in their Irish language. It was really beautiful.”

[malaise]

4. THIS

The truth

[Mister Ed]

5. Help those who help others.

Last year, Mrs. Ed made a donation to the Navajo Nation to help them grapple with the coronavirus crisis they were facing. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to lend a tiny bit of support to such a generous people, and I'll be looking to take that opportunity again. Others who read this may wish to as well.