Susan Power was born in Chicago, Illinois and is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Tribe of the Dakotas. Her mother Susan Kelly Power (Gathering of Stormclouds Woman, in Dakota) is also an enrolled member. She is a descendant of Sioux Chief Mato Nupa (Two Bears). At the age of 16, Susan Kelly moved to Chicago from the reservation and started work as a housekeeper. Later she went to law school and became an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. She was also an activist, founding the American Indian Center in Chicago; increasingly important as the city now has 25,000 American Indian residents.
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