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Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)
Maria Tallchief: Native America's Prima Ballerina (Beginner Biography
Maria Tallchief was inspired to dance while watching Osage dancers as a child in Oklahoma. For tribal ceremonies only men were allowed to dance. But, Maria went on to become America's first prima ballerina.
24 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2020
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April 1, 2025
I took interest in this book when preparing for a Girl Scout meeting where we presented the girls with the newly issued Juliette Gordon Low quarter. She and Maria Tallchief are two of 20 women in American history to be featured on the US quarter.
I checked out as many books on these women from the library as I could and brought them along. The girls didn't take much in the books themselves, but I had their attention long enough to expose them to these women. Now that I have a stack this high of YA biographies, I plan to read them and will encourage my kids to check them out before returning them.
I enjoyed this beginner biography and would read more of this series. The relaese of the America Women Quarters is what made me aware of Maria Tallchief.
I checked out as many books on these women from the library as I could and brought them along. The girls didn't take much in the books themselves, but I had their attention long enough to expose them to these women. Now that I have a stack this high of YA biographies, I plan to read them and will encourage my kids to check them out before returning them.
I enjoyed this beginner biography and would read more of this series. The relaese of the America Women Quarters is what made me aware of Maria Tallchief.
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