Post by Craig Vann on Sept 24, 2019 15:28:51 GMT -5
I've been asked to share my ancestry. So I will but it'll be lengthy.
In 1984 my grandmother sat me down and told me that we were actually Santee indians. She gave me two words passed to her by her grandmother who went t visit her as a child after her mom passed in 1939 when she was eleven . The words were of the Yankton dialect. " Wopina meaning thank you. Amd ihsanti which was proper but to just say Santee " over the yrs. Spiritual experiences a dream about being hung as a teen in the dead of winter long before i ever heard of the Dakota 38 , December 26th 1862 Mankato minneosta after the uprising . Later on about 2014 , I began to frequent the Rez in sisseton amd began to learn culture. Custom language ceremony . 2018 I take a DNA test and two cousins popped up on the sisseton Rez . The very Rez id been visiting for four and a half yrs . As I began to study the surnames contained in trees for my matches I made other discoveries as well. Secondine Anderson. Relations to chief segundai of the Delaware band . A cousin named tara Madden who descends from him. But also related to the stead family ame bigtalk from pine ridge and rosebud. I found. Mann , chavis Locklear driggers oxnedine seodndine Beverly. Bass. Brahnam relatives from the Eastern seaboard . Then from south Dakota. Bagola floor rencountre. Zephier courneyor (Lakota ). Then Crawford renville Campbell and Augie ( Dakota)on an entirely dif line. Which I believe was my second great grandfathers line Adam Singleton ( sinkler whixh i believe to be a bastardization of Sinclair ) I began to find names like. Tafoyah . Apodaca , Trujillo which originates in the southwest. In digging in census records I found something. In a 1920 census for the same township my grandfather lived in. Privateer township Sumpter south Carolina i found a man named israel Singleton. This is ten yrs after my grandfather left that area . So I began to study amd research Israels lines. Turns out one of his grandfathers was a seafarer in the gulf of Mexico and taken a slave woman known as Begay. No first or last name. Just " begay " who later changed her name to Becky. In viewing my migrations and timelines. I places several ancestors at dif locations in the south west .I can recall them clearly. In 1850. There's an ancestor who makes a jump from the Sonoran desert into Tuscon. This wae viewed by an Apache elder who said to me " u have yaqui blood ". Then a little further west there's another living in tonto national Forest . Then a branch from Mexico heading to California. One in New Mexico another in Texas. And finally pike national Forest Colorado. I began to find profiles for these Singletons and reached out to them. They weren't the nicest of folks so I put down trying to mak any further contact. They maintain that they are atakapa indians which were pushed esterly into lousiana amd Texas . Which I believe. One particular profile happened to have a connection to a Knowles family it said. " Beyonce's great grandparents ". Which happened to be a Knowles and a Singleton. Seeing an ancestor in pike national Forest. And knowing full well according to the timelines that it was the kiowa and comanche there in that era made me believe Beyonce's claim to Comanche ancestry to be even more true. It wasn't a lie . .
How did a mixed dakota/Lakota end up so far from the interior in south Carolina. ? " War " after the uprising in 1862. When a bia agent by the name of andrew myrick declared to a group of dakota. " Let them eat grass and buffalo dung " when they were seeking annuities . The uprising ended .many dakota began to join the army as scouts. I've discovered 138 of them that served in the thirteenth division fourth regiment from out of fort snelling under a John E smith. . who also served under William Tecumseh Sherman during his Carolinas campaign amd famous March to the sea . A researcher from minneosta historical society has reviewed my case many times and looked at my DNA matches from ancestry. He believes that this soldier traveled east. And fought in a skirmish at the Edisto River on the mornings of February 10th 11th and 12 of 1865 on the March north before the sackings of both Columbia and Charleston many or these 138 men were present at dif locations over a five Mile radius . R and R time it was said that these soldiers passed thru a community of Catawba people. Taking wives amd mates along the way. My grandmother's knowledge of words in the Yankton dialect tells me that Rachel's father was a fluwnt speaker in nakota dialect spoken in minnesota . And her early marriage to a man almost twice her age tells me that her father must have died when she was only thirteen. And my matches tells me her mother had to have been Catawba . By the time Rachel was fifteen. Her first son was already two yrs old. She also spoke french. Many dakota were tri lingual back then. English french and Dakota because of the fur trade. I have a cousin named Waldron fox who is the grandson of a man named antoine zephier rencountre. A mic mac indian who spoke ojibwe. Spanish Italian dako amd french who was also a presbytiria.n minister. In Antoine's lifetime he had seven dakota wives . One of which was his grandmother. Lali spiderwoman rencountre . How i have a cousin with 10.9 centimorgans of DNA from lower brule south dakota is beyond me. But I'm absolutely convinced of an unknown soldier who never made it home to minneosta from south Carolina after the war. And there is the possibility of Rachel's mother dying when Rachel was a baby being born in late 1865 . Many believed I might come from the Davies from Wales. But this is not the case witj me. As to my descendancy from our shared ancestry from places like gingaskin rez in Virginia. And my ties to Monacan amd namsemond people is still beyond me.
In 1984 my grandmother sat me down and told me that we were actually Santee indians. She gave me two words passed to her by her grandmother who went t visit her as a child after her mom passed in 1939 when she was eleven . The words were of the Yankton dialect. " Wopina meaning thank you. Amd ihsanti which was proper but to just say Santee " over the yrs. Spiritual experiences a dream about being hung as a teen in the dead of winter long before i ever heard of the Dakota 38 , December 26th 1862 Mankato minneosta after the uprising . Later on about 2014 , I began to frequent the Rez in sisseton amd began to learn culture. Custom language ceremony . 2018 I take a DNA test and two cousins popped up on the sisseton Rez . The very Rez id been visiting for four and a half yrs . As I began to study the surnames contained in trees for my matches I made other discoveries as well. Secondine Anderson. Relations to chief segundai of the Delaware band . A cousin named tara Madden who descends from him. But also related to the stead family ame bigtalk from pine ridge and rosebud. I found. Mann , chavis Locklear driggers oxnedine seodndine Beverly. Bass. Brahnam relatives from the Eastern seaboard . Then from south Dakota. Bagola floor rencountre. Zephier courneyor (Lakota ). Then Crawford renville Campbell and Augie ( Dakota)on an entirely dif line. Which I believe was my second great grandfathers line Adam Singleton ( sinkler whixh i believe to be a bastardization of Sinclair ) I began to find names like. Tafoyah . Apodaca , Trujillo which originates in the southwest. In digging in census records I found something. In a 1920 census for the same township my grandfather lived in. Privateer township Sumpter south Carolina i found a man named israel Singleton. This is ten yrs after my grandfather left that area . So I began to study amd research Israels lines. Turns out one of his grandfathers was a seafarer in the gulf of Mexico and taken a slave woman known as Begay. No first or last name. Just " begay " who later changed her name to Becky. In viewing my migrations and timelines. I places several ancestors at dif locations in the south west .I can recall them clearly. In 1850. There's an ancestor who makes a jump from the Sonoran desert into Tuscon. This wae viewed by an Apache elder who said to me " u have yaqui blood ". Then a little further west there's another living in tonto national Forest . Then a branch from Mexico heading to California. One in New Mexico another in Texas. And finally pike national Forest Colorado. I began to find profiles for these Singletons and reached out to them. They weren't the nicest of folks so I put down trying to mak any further contact. They maintain that they are atakapa indians which were pushed esterly into lousiana amd Texas . Which I believe. One particular profile happened to have a connection to a Knowles family it said. " Beyonce's great grandparents ". Which happened to be a Knowles and a Singleton. Seeing an ancestor in pike national Forest. And knowing full well according to the timelines that it was the kiowa and comanche there in that era made me believe Beyonce's claim to Comanche ancestry to be even more true. It wasn't a lie . .
How did a mixed dakota/Lakota end up so far from the interior in south Carolina. ? " War " after the uprising in 1862. When a bia agent by the name of andrew myrick declared to a group of dakota. " Let them eat grass and buffalo dung " when they were seeking annuities . The uprising ended .many dakota began to join the army as scouts. I've discovered 138 of them that served in the thirteenth division fourth regiment from out of fort snelling under a John E smith. . who also served under William Tecumseh Sherman during his Carolinas campaign amd famous March to the sea . A researcher from minneosta historical society has reviewed my case many times and looked at my DNA matches from ancestry. He believes that this soldier traveled east. And fought in a skirmish at the Edisto River on the mornings of February 10th 11th and 12 of 1865 on the March north before the sackings of both Columbia and Charleston many or these 138 men were present at dif locations over a five Mile radius . R and R time it was said that these soldiers passed thru a community of Catawba people. Taking wives amd mates along the way. My grandmother's knowledge of words in the Yankton dialect tells me that Rachel's father was a fluwnt speaker in nakota dialect spoken in minnesota . And her early marriage to a man almost twice her age tells me that her father must have died when she was only thirteen. And my matches tells me her mother had to have been Catawba . By the time Rachel was fifteen. Her first son was already two yrs old. She also spoke french. Many dakota were tri lingual back then. English french and Dakota because of the fur trade. I have a cousin named Waldron fox who is the grandson of a man named antoine zephier rencountre. A mic mac indian who spoke ojibwe. Spanish Italian dako amd french who was also a presbytiria.n minister. In Antoine's lifetime he had seven dakota wives . One of which was his grandmother. Lali spiderwoman rencountre . How i have a cousin with 10.9 centimorgans of DNA from lower brule south dakota is beyond me. But I'm absolutely convinced of an unknown soldier who never made it home to minneosta from south Carolina after the war. And there is the possibility of Rachel's mother dying when Rachel was a baby being born in late 1865 . Many believed I might come from the Davies from Wales. But this is not the case witj me. As to my descendancy from our shared ancestry from places like gingaskin rez in Virginia. And my ties to Monacan amd namsemond people is still beyond me.