![]() ![]() Her family, like many of the Osage nation, lived on quarterly oil royalty checks.Īfter oil was discovered on Osage land and brought wealth to their community, White settlers murdered dozens of Osage to steal their mineral rights, as depicted in the book, recently made into a movie, Killers of the Flower Moon. 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Oklahoma, on the Osage reservation, Tallchief began ballet training at three years old. “I’ve never had an Osage ask me that question because we understand (Tallchief’s) legacy,” Smith said.īorn on Jan. Randy Tinker Smith, director at the ballet company, said she’s often asked why the tribe opened the non-profit dance school. ![]() The Osage Ballet hopes to continue to inspire a new generations of dancers in her honor. Tallchief, an Osage woman who revolutionized ballet in the 1940s and ‘50s, died in 2013, at 88. ![]() The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation.īefore class, students can be found warming up with plies and battements, battering pointe shoes or learning about America’s first prima ballerina, who inspired the school’s founding: Elizabeth Marie Tallchief. ![]()
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