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===Traditional communal economy===

[[File:Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou - Alfred Boisseau (New Orleans Mus of Art 56.34).jpg|thumb|''Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou'' [[Alfred Boisseau]], 1847]]

Early Choctaw communities practiced communal labor and shared their harvests.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKr6a6l_Nw4C&pg=PA57|
 author-first1=Carolyn |author-last1=Reeves| title=The Choctaw Before Removal| publisher=University of Mississippi Press| date=2014| page=57| isbn=9781604736991}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.choctaw.org/government/development/economicDevHistory.html|
 title=Economic Development history| publisher=Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians| date=2013}}</ref> They found it difficult to understand why English settlers allowed members of their own communities to suffer from hunger.<ref>{{cite book| author-first1=Ronald |author-last1=Takaki| title=A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America| publisher=Little, Brown and Co.| date=1993| page=89}}</ref>

In [[Ireland]], the generosity of the Choctaw Nation during the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] of the mid-19th century is remembered to this day and has been commemorated by the sculpture ''[[Kindred Spirits (sculpture)|Kindred Spirits]]'', located in a park in [[Midleton]], [[County Cork]].<ref name="2017-06-18-BBC_News">{{cite news |publisher=[[BBC News]] |title=Sculpture marks Choctaw generosity to Irish famine victims
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40304645
 |access-date=2023-06-25 |date=June 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="2016-03-30-ChoctawNation">{{cite web |url=https://www.choctawnation.com/news-events/press-media/choctaw-irish-bond-lives
 |title=The Choctaw-Irish Bond Lives On
|publisher=[[Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma]] |website=choctawnation.com |date=March 30, 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406090614/https://www.choctawnation.com/news-events/press-media/choctaw-irish-bond-lives
 |archive-date=2017-04-06 |url-status=dead}}</ref>