'' Kindred Spirits '' commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger , despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears . While records of the exact amount of the donation vary , the figure usually given is ( about $ in dollars , though some methods indicate it could have been as high as $ 20,000 in 2015 dollars . ) The sculpture consists of nine stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle , no two feathers being identical , forming a bowl shape to represent a gift of a bowl of food . It was created by Alex Pentek at the Sculpture Factory in Cork , Ireland , with assistance from students of the Crawford College of Art and Design , and installed in Bailick Park in 2015 . The memorial was commissioned by Midleton Town Council , and was officially unveiled and dedicated in June 2017 by Chief Gary Batton , Chief of the Choctaw Nation , Assistant Chief Jack Austin Jr. , and Councillor Seamus McGrath , County Mayor of Cork , accompanied by a 20-strong delegation from the Choctaw Nation
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Kindred Spirits (sculpture)