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Soul Sisters on St. Patrick’s Day

by Editorial Team
18 March 2025
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The Irish do love a good story and a good celebration. The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day has evolved from the observance of the death of St. Patrick in the fifth century into a celebration of Irish culture and heritage. The corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and Guinness I understand, the green beer–not so much.

While the modern day “Wearing O’ the Green” for many, adds to the fun, the original adoption of green ribbons, clothing and hats by the Society of United Irishmen and the street ballad “The Wearing of the Green” (lamenting the oppression of the 1798 Irish rebellion) was never known by many and forgotten by most.

During the 700 years of British colonial rule of Ireland, the Irish like all subjects of British settler colonialism suffered violence and coercion to further the economic power of the Empire. The methods of how to control native populations, the land and natural resources varied from empire to empire, but those methods resulted in resistance and often wars of rebellion. World wide, whether in Ireland, India, Africa, Asia the Americas or the Palestinian state– people, eventually, will reject their oppressors.

On this St. Patrick’s Day we would do well to remember a chapter of often forgotten history, the relationship between the Irish people and the Choctaw Nation. In 1847, during the worst of the Irish famine, the Choctaw nation, roughly 15 years after their forced journey from their ancestral home in Mississippi to Indian territory in Oklahoma the “trail of tears and death”, collected and sent $170 –over $5,000 in today’s money to Midleton in County Cork Ireland.

The Choctaw, unlike the British government, recognized the humanity and suffering of the Irish people, even as the Choctaw still suffered and had little to give. They had been forced to cede 11 million acres, they still mourned lost family members, yet they gave what they could, seeing the their own suffering now lived by the Irish.

Often, times of suffering and adversity bring out, as Lincoln called it, “the better angles of our nature”. The people of Ireland and the Choctaw nation shared a common suffering and formed a common bond that still exists. In 2018, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visited the Choctaw nation in Oklahoma and noted, “A few years ago, on a visit to Ireland, a representative of the Choctaw Nation called your support for us ‘a sacred memory’ it is that and more. It is a sacred bond, which has joined our peoples together for all time. Your act of kindness has never been, and never will be, forgotten in Ireland.”

Indeed they did not forget and in 2020, as the Navajo and Hopi tribes suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Irish people citing the generosity of the Choctaws, raised nearly $2 million for the Navajo and Hopi peoples. In gratitude for the gift, Gary Batton, chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, said, “We have become kindred spirits with the Irish in the years since the Irish potato famine,” he said. “We hope the Irish, Navajo and Hopi peoples develop lasting friendships, as we have.”

Colonialism has a long and tragic history, sadly still seen today. If only as an afterthought, while celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, we should remember the common bond that exists between the oppressed peoples of the world. Perhaps we might call upon those “better angels of our nature” and do what we can to resist the oppression here, in Palestine, in Ukraine, in Africa, and realize that across oceans or even across the street, we must recognize each other’s humanity.

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