This may be lengthy but I have to explain as much as possible
In 1984 my grandmother gave me an account of her grandmother being santee Indian born in south Carolina, my grandmother , lueva Vann left me two words. " ihsanti " and " Wopina " meaning gratitude , these are words in the ihanktonwanna dialect spoken by the yanktonnai Dakota of Minnesota , for decades I had believed my grandmother meant santee of a similar south Carolina tribe but this was not the case. For the better part of five yrs or more I've frequented the sisseton wahpeton rez in south Dakota never asking questions. As of 2018 I caught the sale on an ancestry DNA kit and took the test. My results posted and I was excited about the possibilities , one evening for fun while reviewing matches and finding cousins in type in a name common only in sisseton and one person came back as being my fifth cousin . Everything my grandmother told me began to unfold and historically the people of that tribe were considered santee , the conversation. With this 5th cousin didn't go anywhere. So I then searched out matches by region. " south Dakota " was my entry , another 5th cousin came back this time in Oklahoma and descended from families in sisseton, pine ridge, and Rosebud reservations , thru no fault of my own I could not get one single audience with anyone from ancestry so I took my search to gedmatch ,and began to conduct searches thru the " search all gedcoms " feature and i found kits for descendants and began to run the autosomal one to one matching at an snp window size of 200 and a segment centimorgan reading of 2 , I learned the lower you go the more u will see on the calculator , sure enough I came back as being related to people descended from some notable families from south Dakota and Minnesota , with very high readings. A historian pointed out to me that a 2nd regiment infantry , a fourth regiment infantry and a 1st battery light artillery were organized at fort snelling minnesota BEFORE the uprising in 1862 . There was however a group known as the renville rangers who served only four months consisting of ethnically mixed and full blooded Dakota people . these were recalled no sooner than they had left amd they were sent to go fight under sherman during his march to the sea and the sacking of columbia south carolina in 1865. The whole entire fourth from Minnesota was in the very front line as he took 3 cities, Sherman also crossed the edisto river in 1865. The same exact yr my grandmother Rachel was born ,with her sister being born a yr apart in 1866. Been able to narrow down the regiment their father served in which would have been the 4th directly under Sherman. And Rachel's area of birth near the salkehatchie and edisto rivers . My grandmother's knowledge of those two words tells me that their father must have been very active in their lives , very much alive and must have survived the civil war and lastly, was more than likely a deserter from the union army and pretty much awol. It is the estimated birth yrs of both Rachel and Pleasant ,or this soldier finished the campaign out by passing an opportunity to return to Minnesota and stayed in south Carolina for the remainder raising both girls together. From the renville rangers , comes a man named jospeh auge with family in both Quebec and France, who is married to a woman named Angelique Louise dupui auge " who just so happens to be a neice to chief little crow , I imagine that Angelique must have had a brother who was also a nephew to chief little crow that must have served in the fourth regiment alongside his brother in law Joseph auge . The reason I suspect it is a brother to Angelique that is the father of Rachel and pleasant is the DNA kits I've run against little crow descendants and those readings with the low scores being a male ancestor and the high ones from a female ancestor autosomal is both male and female and we get the bulk of our DNA from women and female ancestors . These were very very high and I am related to the little crow descendants , I've had close to no contact at all with the kit managers and there is a refusal to lend me any kind of audience. And that has not detered me in any way I do plan on arriving at some kind of proof . Hence me coming here to wiki tree to get feedback on things like Sherman's fourth regiment , and the March to the sea. And other possible scenarios . I. Am also finding relatives in the south Carolina side who are descended from those nations present at the time of Sherman's March thru the back woods and swamps near edisto island and river .
