Maria Tallchief, an Osage dancer from Oklahoma known as "America's first prima ballerina" is the latest in the line of Inspiring Women to be immortalized as a Barbie doll. In celebration of Native ...

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Despite assumptions to the contrary, prima ballerina Maria Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes associate professor ...