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Mona Susan Power
Native American author from Illinois and Minnesota, U.S.
Not to be confused with Susan Powers or Susan Kelly Power.
Mona Susan Power (Standing Rock Dakota, born ) is an Native American author based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Her debut novel, The Grass Dancer (), received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Best First Fiction.
Early life
Power was born in Chicago, Illinois,[3] and is a Yantonai Dakota enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota.[4][5] Her mother, Susan Kelly Power, Gathering of Stormclouds Woman (Standing Rock Dakota, –), was an activist who helped found the American Indian Center of Chicago.[4] Susan's mother, Mona's grandmother, Josephine Gates Kelly was three-term tribal chairperson for the Stand Rock Sioux Tribe.[4] Mona's great-grandmother was Nellie Two Bear Gates.[6] She is a descendant of Sioux Chief Mato Nupa (Two Bears).[7