Susan Kelly Power

Susan Kelly Power (1925–2022) was an indigenous American Yanktonai Dakota activist and founding member of the American Indian Center of Chicago, Illinois.

Not to be confused with her daughter, Mona Susan Power, an American author.

Early life Susan Louise Kelly Power was born on January 22, 1925, in Fort Yates, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Power was enrolled in an Indian Boarding School and later briefly sent to a Catholic boarding school within South Dakota and was then sent back to North Dakota to Bismarck Indian School. Power was active with Native groups such as the Indian Council Fire and the National Congress of American Indians, becoming was the organization's youngest member at the time of its creation in 1944. AIC was established to assist Native families in dealing with the transition from life on the reservation to urban life as a result of this influx

Family She is survived by her daughter Mona Susan Power, stepson Douglas Power, and his wife Jeanann Glassford Power, stepdaughter Marjorie Mbilinyi, and grandchildren Douglas Drew and Alessandra Power, Nnali, Anina, and Lyungai Mbilinyi. Power was preceded in death by her husband Carleton G. Power, who died in 1973.