This is a picture of Dora Lea Stidham, My Great Grandmother
I am looking for anyone who can tell me any information about her. We know she was full-blooded Crow Indian(maiden name Asberry). She was institutionalized for 70 years after my Great-Grandfather was shot and killed by his father in the early 1900's. They made the excuse up that she was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and she could no longer care for her children. My grandmother witnessed this at five years old and was taken away from her mother and put in an abusive home with her brothers where they could not eat at the same table with the family and many times were not aloud to go out of the house or be seen when visitors came over. My Great Grandmother had a blind Indian brother who would visit her many years later in the nursing home (nurses concluding that she should have never been placed in either), but no one knew of his visits until six months before his death. My Great Uncles made contact with him and even went to visit him and he said that he had many things to give to them, but when they went back to visit him in Ohio, he had walked on, the house boarded up, and everything taken-we don't know where his body is and who took his things. He was never married. If you know something about her, or her life, please contact me. My e-mail address is pkgard@bsu.edu. This is the only picture my Grandmother has of her mother. My Grandmother's eyes have been grieving for all these years and as her grandaughter,I must stop her tears.

This picture has been defaced as was commonly done to pictures of natives on the reservations, look at her eyes, hair, and clothes. She was broken by the process of assimilation, by the White Mans' Laws: being without her children