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Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent a part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the beef up of her circle of relatives and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the highest of her art form to turn out to be The united states’s first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations supply visual sidebars to the history of ballet even as taking readers in the course of the lifetime of this amazing dancer.