Native American and Irish interactions

Native American nations, Irish immigrants to the United States, and residents of Ireland have a history of often-supportive interactions dating back to the start of the Great Famine.

Across multiple generations, people from both communities have drawn attention to their parallel histories of colonization by English-speaking countries.

[1][2][3] Scholarship on, and press attention to, these interactions has highlighted both acts of solidarity and the participation of some Irish immigrants in the invasion and dispossession of Native Americans.

He met with the Lac Court Oreille Band of the Ojibwe in Wisconsin.

[5] Joe Kingfisher, the Tribal Chief, described his wishes to give de Valera, "'the prettiest blossom of the fairest flower on earth, for you come to us as a representative of one oppressed nation to another,'".