A Portrait of my Great ... Grandmother Sai-sai-go-no-kwe "Woman of the Falling Snow" 1860

Doing some research into my Family Tree and mtDNA Testing with FamilyTreeDNA.com I discovered some interesting stories about my maternal great great ... grandmother.

Her name was Josephte Rocbert de la Morandiere, nee Sai-sai-go-no-kwe. Above is a photo taken of her about the year 1860. She was the wife of a French Trapper and Fur Trader named Etienne Augustin Rocbert de la Morandiere.

Together they established the small town of Killarney Ontario on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron in Canada.

Fur trade posts were built along the Georgian Bay, with the Killarney post established on June 28th, 1820, by Etienne Augustin Rocbert de la Morandiere. His wife, Josephte Sai-sai-go-no-kwe (woman of the falling snow) was a member of the Odawa Nation (the traders) and Shawnee. She was born in Michigan and was the niece and adopted daughter of Chief Kitchi Bashigigan and a close relative of the famous Chief Tecumseh."

Source: http://www.killarneyhistory.com

Tecumseh (March 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Native American Shawnee Warrior and Chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early years of the nineteenth century. Born in the Ohio Country (present-day Ohio), and growing up during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, Tecumseh was exposed to warfare and envisioned the establishment of an independent Indian nation east of the Mississippi River under British protection and worked to recruit additional members to his tribal confederacy from the southern United States. Tecumseh was among the most celebrated Indian leaders in history and was known as a strong and eloquent orator who promoted tribal unity. He was also ambitious, willing to take risks, and make significant sacrifices to repel the Americans from Indian lands in the Old Northwest Territory. In 1808, with his brother Tenskwatawa ("The Prophet"), Tecumseh founded the Indian village the Americans called Prophetstown, located north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana. Prophetstown grew into a large, multi-tribal community and a central point in Tecumseh's political and military alliance." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh

According to my FamilyTreeDNA results my MtDNA (maternal DNA) is Haplogroup X2a which is Ojibwe (called Chippewa in the US) This Haplogroup is unique among the Ojibwe in Canada. This discovery helped me find another Grandmother that is my mother's mother's mother's mother ... all the way back to a woman named Marie Angelique Algeo (Piwabike) who was born on Manitoulin Island and married an Italian Trapper named Algeo. So I end up with Italian on both my mother and father's Family Tree. So many interesting stories hidden in our DNA. I am looking for a photo of this Grandmother also. Stay tuned.

FamilyTreeDNA: http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.com