Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Tallchief, an Osage dancer from Oklahoma known as "America's first prima ballerina" is the latest in the line of Inspiring ...

Tallchief, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, and her daughter, Elise Paschen, tells PEOPLE how "exciting" it is to see her mother memorialized as a Barbie Hedy Phillips is the ...

Maria Tallchief performing ‘Firebird’ at the New York City Ballet on Sept. 19, 1963. Jack Mitchell / Archive Photos via Getty Images Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief waited for her cue in the wings of ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief waited for her cue in the wings of the City Center in downtown Manhattan on Nov. 27, 1949, preparing to take the stage in the New York City Ballet’s ...