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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 05895
Title: Susan Kelley
Date: 1940
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [In pencil on negative emulsion] Susan Kelley [biography-Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota] Susan Kelly Power (Gathering of Storm Clouds Woman), founded the American Indian Center in Chicago and was very dedicated to her tribe, The Standing Rock Sioux of Fort Yates, North Dakota. While Power’s mother, the descendant of the Sioux Chief Mato Nupa (Two Bears), would recite her stories about their native lineage, her father, Carleton Gilmore Power, the grandson of the governor of New Hampshire during the Civil War, would read her stories at night. [Southern Illinois University Alumni] Susan Kelley-Powers Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Special Education Paraprofessional at Edina Public Schools Primary/Secondary Education Education: University of Kansas 1985 – 1986 Elementary Education Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1974 – 1976 Bachelor of Science/Education, Elementary Education Experience: Edina Public Schools October 2000 – Present
Summary: Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Susan Louise Kelley (also known as Gathering of Storm Clouds Woman) in regalia. She is wearing a full-length deer skin dress with fringe and porcupine quill work and beading. Her hair is arranged in two long braids on either side of her head with a beaded headband around her forehead.
Red ID: PH_I_125978 Image ID: 136260 Image Notes: 1952-05795

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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