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Funeral service for Danita Mata age 17, of Little Eagle, SD will be 11:00 AM Saturday, September 29, 2018 at Elkhorn UCC Church in Little Eagle. Interment in Elkhorn Congregational Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation be Friday, September 28, 2018 beginning at 4:00 PM with a prayer service at 7:00 PM at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge. Danita passed away Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at IHS Eagle Butte, SD.

Danita Leann Mata (Nita) was born on March 16, 2001 in Minneapolis, MN to Sophronia Coltrane and James Mata.
Her Lakota name was Wambli Wiyaka Yuhamani Win "Walks with Eagle Feather"

She went to elementary school in Minneapolis, McLaughlin and Little Eagle Grant School, where she graduated 8 ^th grade. She attended high school in McLaughlin, Minneapolis and Eagle Butte.

She was a very active girl, she enjoyed participating in track, archery, and basketball. Whatever sport she took part in she did her best. She also enjoyed dancing. She tried traditional, jingle and decided she would do fancy shawl.

Her favorite thing to do was ride horses. She spent a lot of time out at her Lala Anthony's just to be around horses when she was younger. She preferred to ride bareback most of the time. Danita loved challenges, this caused her to do things she was asked NOT to do. She got into the suicide horse race in Kenel a couple years ago and came in first place.

Her dream was to graduate high school, so she could go into the Marine Corp. She wanted to travel, wanted to see other parts of the country, and meet people.

Danita was a quiet girl most of the time, however, a very friendly person.

We miss her so much already.

Survived by: paternal grandmother, Nina Mata, her dad, James Mata, her two brothers, Raul Mata and Elias Sims. Her aunts, Pamela Mata of Mobridge, Jamie Mata & Bernadette Mata of Minneapolis, her uncles, Daniel Mata of Wyoming, MN, David Mata of Minneapolis and Lance Mata of Little Eagle. Her grandma's Delores Taken Alive and Maize Shelton, her Lala's Adrian Kills Crow, Anthony Swift Cloud, Bernard Mountain, and The Taken Alive Tiyospaye.