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Susan Power
Susan Power (born 1961) (Standing Rock Dakota) is an author from Chicago, Illinois. Her debut novel, ''Grass Dancer'' (1994), received the 1995 PHemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Best First Fiction. ==Early life and education== 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.〔(Susan Power: Biography and criticism of work ), ''Voices from the Gap'', University of Minnesota, accessed 24 July 2014〕 On the other side of Power's family, her father Carleton Gilmore Power is of New England descent and worked as a salesman in publishing. One of his great-great-grandfathers was governor of New Hampshire.〔 She heard stories that inspired her imagination from both sides. Power attended local schools, then earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School.
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