When New York City Ballet choreographer George Balanchine debuted his version, starring Oklahoma native Maria Tallchief as the Sugar Plum Fairy, in 1954, it became an American holiday hit.

“My mother, the prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, grew up on the Osage reservation,” she said. As a child, Paschen watched her mother dance across the world’s most prestigious stages.

Wells, Naomi Osaka, Celia Cruz, and a sorority of other history-making women, Mattel has just announced the newest member of Barbie's Inspiring Women Series: Maria Tallchief. Tallchief was a ...

Keira Knightley attends the "Le Grand Diner du Louvre" 2025 But how do you wear the tulle and tutu trend without looking like a sugar plum fairy? "A voluminous tulle skirt or layered dress in ...

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The couple sitting behind me at Sunday's matinee performance of Tulsa Ballet's "The Three Musketeers" spent the interval discussing if the ballet they were witnessing that afternoon was the same ...

Despite a lack of representation, women of color have long blazed trails in the world of ballet. Janet Collins and Maria Tallchief became the first Black and Native American prima ballerinas, ...

Her courageous stand at the Oscars remains a pivotal moment in the fight for Indigenous representation in Hollywood. Maria Tallchief, born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, was America's first major prima ...

Remains of 5 Native Americans returned home 120 years after graves were looted A Native American tribe in Minnesota recently welcomed home five of its ancestors more than a century after their ...

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The Queen Garnet plum is the spectacular result of an early 2000's stone fruit breeding program in Queensland: when the plums were fed to obese rats, there was a stunning turnaround in their health.