Woman searching for past

      Some time ago a lady wrote me with the following information. Her name was Betty and she said she was born in Buffalo, New York to Native parents and in the middle of the night, given to a white-skinned man after his own baby died from a disease.

      She said her parents went to court and proved that she was their baby. This story was also in all the newspapers, even after the hospital admitted they made the mistake.

      “I have been searching a very long time,” she wrote. “I also had a brother named Dwaine Heltom from Prairie Island, Minnesota. He was with a Minnesota drum group in Columbus, Ohio

and had contacted the group, leaving many messages. No one told my brother I was searching for him. My brother has passed away 6 months ago. I also have a sister, Isabelle, with the Dennis Banks’ group I was told and would like to place an od or this story in your newspapers in the hope someone would let her know to contact me.”

      The dates of this article–which rlnn.com hasn’t been able to track down at this time–could be between 1940-1945. Betty said her actual birthdate was sort of unknown at this time. The hospital name may have been the “E.J. Meyers Memorial Hospital in Buffalo, New York, where Betty was born.

      If anyone has information, please email me and I will pass this information on to her.