Honouring Choctaw and Cherokee Irish Famine Aid 

Honouring Choctaw and Cherokee Irish Famine Aid (28:00) explores the archival record and artistic legacies of Native American contributions to help alleviate Irish suffering during the Great Hunger in 1847. Professor LeAnne Howe (Eidson Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University) examine archival documents of these Indigenous acts of giving and artistic works commemorating them such as the "Kindred Spirits" monument in Midleton, County Cork, Sam Guerrero Stitt's "Eternal Heart" sculpture in the Choctaw Capitol Grounds in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, and Brendan O'Neill's "The Gift" in the Choctaw Cultural Center, Durant, Oklahoma, and the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park. The film also features a performance of Steve Gardner's musical adaptation "The Gift" based on LeAnne Howe and Doireann Ní Ghríofa's "Singing Still: Libretto for the 1847 Choctaw Gift to the Irish for Famine Relief". Footage of Sam Guerrero Stitt (S5 E4 Pt1) and Claire Young (S3E9) provided courtesy of Rachael Youngman, Native ChocTalk nativechoctalk.com/
Honouring Choctaw and Cherokee Irish Famine Aid is hosted by the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park in collaboration with Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, and Choctaw Professor LeAnne Howe, Dr Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Professor Gillian O'Brien (Liverpool John Moore's University) in the Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition and Reciprocity project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The film is funded by the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme.
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