Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Tallchief, an Osage dancer from Oklahoma known as "America's first prima ballerina" is the latest in the line of Inspiring ...

Tallchief, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, and her daughter, Elise Paschen, tells PEOPLE how "exciting" it is to see her mother memorialized as a Barbie Hedy Phillips is the ...

The Osage Nation’s ballet trailblazer, Maria Tallchief, is now honored with one of Mattel’s newest Barbie designs. The doll was created as part of Mattel's Barbie brand’s mission to recognize ...

Maria Tallchief, an Osage dancer from Oklahoma known as "America's first prima ballerina" is the latest in the line of Inspiring Women to be immortalized as a Barbie doll. In celebration of Native ...