Barbie, Maria Tallchief and Native American

But Tallchief refused and insisted on dancing as Maria Tallchief, keeping her Osage name, according to a biography of the ballerina by the School of American Ballet. Elise Paschen, Tallchief ...
while Maria Tallchief, 39, long the company’s biggest box-office attraction, has danced but eleven times. Tallchief, the fourth of Balanchine’s five ballerina wives, says wistfully ...