Taken inflation into account, the same amount today would be worth $19,722.22. The Choctaw had no reason to do this other than a shared sense of common humanity which led them to raise vital funds for the Irish.
Worth noting is that Queen Victoria, the monarch at the time who ought to have cared more about her people, only sent £2000 to the Irish and that she ordered that no-one else would be allowed to send more money than her, meaning that the Ottoman Sultan had to cut his original donation from £10,000 to £1,000.
