Talk:Maria Tallchief

message: There is no mention of Ballanchine on the page for Maria Tallchief, but the Ballanchine page indicates that Tallchief and he were married.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.150.10.200 (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: From her autobiography:
They named me Elizabeth Marie after two grandmothers: Eliza Tall Chief, and my Grandma Porter, who'd been named for Marie Antoinette, and with whom I would spend a great deal of time as a child. They called me Betty Marie.  (page 5)
One afternoon after a Rodeo rehearsal, Miss de Mille found me in the studio. Everyone else was gone but I was still working. I think she was impressed.
"You know, Betty Marie, I have some advice. There are so many Bettys and Elizabeths in ballet. If I were you I'd think about changing my name. Why don't you use your middle name alone and call yourself Maria?"
I was sensitive to the subject. Mr. Denham had already asked me to add an a to the end of my last name and call myself Tallchieva, but I refused. Tallchief was my name, and I was proud of it. But changing my first name seemed like a good idea.
"You could be Maria Tallchief," Miss de Mille said.
I adopted the name and informed the company, but it didn't become official until the following season.  (page 27)
Ivar Y (talk) 14:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Clarification 

message: I'm not sure how to work this into the article but Maria Tallchief is often mentioned in connection with four other Indian ballerinas from Oklahoma. This group, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, Moscelyne Larkin and Maria Tallchief and Marjorie Tallchief, is well known in Oklahoma. There are at least two sculptures dedicated to them in Tulsa. There is a mural commerating them in the Oklahoma State Capitol. The group was awarded the inaugral National Cultural Treasures Award of the National Museum of the American Indian. Dsmdgold (talk) 03:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Five Indian Balerinas

message: The article is fine as it stands but the introduction, specifically the lead sentence, needs more citations. I cited the fact she was the first person of Native American descent to become prima ballerina using the Time magazine as a primary source, but couldn't find anybody giving her credit as the first American 'major' prima ballerina.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:50, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct.  That was an oversight on my part (eventually the relevant quotes will be incorporated into the body of the article).  The Time article is a good one which I used to help expand the article. --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:23, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources 

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message: The Google Doodle today is on Tallchief, so expect a lot of traffic. Glad to see that this page is in pretty decent shape, although the lead does have some peacock language we should fix.  talk 19:46, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Doodle traffic 

message: The Chicago Tribune obit ref (used almost 20 times in this article) sends me to an error page. So it might be gone. - Special-T (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obit ref is gone? 

message: Lead says she was America's first "major" prima ballerina. What does "major" mean here? Greg Dahlen (talk) 13:11, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does first "major" prima ballerina mean?