After tornadoes swept through Alabama killing 23 people, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians reached out to see how they could help.

After talking to Lee County Coroner Bill Harris, they agreed to donate $50,000 to help with the funerals. Then they called back. They wanted to know how much it would cost to cover funerals for all 23 victims.

“… I gave them a figure and they graciously made it happen,” Harris said in a statement.

In the end, the Poarch Band agreed to donate $184,000. Harris said that money will be deposited with the East Alabama Medical Center Foundation to be dispersed to the funeral homes.

“I am so thankful for them to step up in this manner and help the families of this tragedy,” he said.

The tribe regularly donates to community causes.

It also offered money to help in the wake of an EF-2 tornado that ravaged nearby Wetumpka earlier this year. One of those donations, a $25,000 gift from the band’s Wind Creek Casino to help rebuild the heavily damaged First Baptist Church in Wetumpka, was returned by the congregation over church opposition to gambling.

“Certainly we accept and recognize the spirit in which the donation was offered,” the Rev. James Troglen said at the time. “We felt it was one group in the community making an honest effort to help another group.”

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