YOUNGER FICTION
Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise

The Long March: The Choctaw's Gift to Irish Famine Relief

(4) 1-3 A Choctaw Indian tells a story from his boyhood. In 1847, living in poverty with their population greatly reduced, his people respond to the needs of the Irish during the potato famine by contributing $170 to the U.S. aid efforts. Based on a true event, the story is slightly romanticized but enhanced by pencil drawings with fine attention to detail.

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