Santee Baird
Santee "Maphiya Maza" (Iron Cloud) Baird is the son of Louis Baird and Ardis Iron Cloud. He has one brother Brian and three sisters, Mary, Sonja, and Hail. Santee is the grandson of Ed and Mary Iron Cloud and comes from the Dan Black Horn Tiospaye.
Santee was born in Rosebud, South Dakota on September 19, 1977. He spent his childhood between Mission, South Dakota and Porcupine, South Dakota.
During his childhood, Santee attended several reservation schools. He graduated from Todd County middle school and Little Wound High School in 1996. After high school, Santee enlisted in the US Marine Corp. During his service he was deployed to 11 different countries and stationed on both coasts. He received the good conduct medal, humanitarian service medal, meritorious unit citation, Joint meritorious unit citation, armed forces expeditionary medal, sea service deployment, and then was honorably discharged in March 2004.
Santee has lived in California since 1997 and has resided in San Diego since 2000, where he lives with his wife Tanya, and two girls, Tierra and Chase. Wife Tanya is still enlisted in the service and active in the Navy. Santee is in the process of registering for college in San Diego and will possibly re-enlist in the Marine Corp.