ALEESE ELENA SANTIAGO

"Beesa"

Wa Owapi Ota un Sayab Winyan

(SMEARED WITH MANY COLORS)

Sunrise September 2, 2003

Sunset January 4, 2022

Wake

January 8 & 9, 2022                       January 10, 2022

Anderson Funeral Chapel            Buffalo Lake District Center

St. Paul, Minnesota                           Eden, South Dakota

Funeral Service

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Buffalo Lake District Center

Eden, South Dakota

Interment

Buffalo Lake Presbyterian Cemetery

Eden, South Dakota

Officiating

Pastor Sergio Aranda

Ronald K. Brant, Unkana (Grandfather)

Pallbearers Aleese's Brothers

Alejandro Santiago, Darwin Cano Solis Jr., Kobe Cano Solis,

Sunrise Hart Jr., Francisco Hart, Black Bear Hart, Louie Hart,

Aiden Hart, Standing Elk "Jay" Ogitchida, Cante Hart,

Anthony LeClaire, Jasten Brant Zephier, Wambli Brant, Kinipo Hart, Wihenapa "Sunrise" Hart Sr., Alcott Brant Jr., Norman Brant.

Honorary Pallbearers Aleese's Sisters

Arlana Santiago, Mikayla Maxwell, Kini Po Marie Hart,

Alondra Cano Solis, Sunjkakan Wakinyan Heart, Yza Bella Zavala,

Yza Dora Zavala, Tanae LeCaire,TaSheena Hart,

TaShayla Hart, Adream Hart, Winona Brant Zephier,

And many family and friends.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil, for you are with me;

your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalms 23:4 NIV

Aleese "Beesa" Santiago was brought onto Mother Earth by parents Frances Helen Brant and Jaime Alejandro Santiago at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was very respectful and proud of her mixed culture of German, Irish, Mexican and Indigenous, Beesa was enrolled in the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate. She enjoyed beading, traveling, jingle dress dancing, welding, cooking (frybread and indian tacos), basketball and many other activities with family and friends. Her favorite pastime was spending time with her friends and relatives. Her love was baseball which she was recruited by a High School coach because of her pitching and batting average (dona homeruns). She was also AIMS and Buffalo Lake representative in the same year. That is how talented our Beesa was. We will miss her dearly. <3

Survived by parents Frances "Frannie" Brant and Jaime "Sapo" Santiago. Brother Alejandro Santiago, sisters Arlana Santiago of St. Paul,MN and Alyssa Budion of Elk River, MN. Grandmothers Janice Cano of St. Paul, MN and Frances Hart of Wagner, SD. Tunwins (Aunts) Marie "Malana" Ogitchida of Shakopee, MN, Maria Santiago (Raul Zavala) of Maplewood, MN, Lorene Clark (Rocko) of Toppenish, WA and Rose Brant Cano Solis (Darwin Cano Solis Sr) of Oakdale, MN. Dekshis (Uncles) Kini Hart of Webster, Wisconsin, Wihenapa "Sunrise" Hart Sr. of Wagner, SD, Alcott Brant Jr and Norman Brant of Wagner, SD. Mojo Santiago of St. Paul, MN (cat). Jimmy Agabo (friend).