Betty Marie was a girl who had big dreams of being a ballerina. Betty had an Osage Heritage and was born in 1925. She spent most her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Ballet had helped her get out of her shell. When Betty was 4 yrs old, she had her first ballet lesson. After her lesson, she was in love with ballet. Betty had a good start to her career. She preformed at country fairs and rodeos. Betty learned that her talent isn’t enough to make her successful, and there was always more work to be done. Betty’s natural talent made it easier for her to learn ballet from her instructor. She hadn’t learned the basics right and she became very frustrated because she had to go back to the beginning and learn those basics. As Betty Marie’s career grew, there were hardships. There were people in the dancing world that considered her special, but people outside of that world, were mean, especially at her school. People made fun of her being a Native American. People would ask why isn’t she wearing her feathers. Some people wore whoops whenever they saw her. People also made fun of her last name at school. That’s when she decided to change her name to “Maria Tallchief”, because it sounded more traditional and European, since ballerinas at the time were …show more content…
white and European. That name also helped her career. Maria had lots of experience as a dancer. She became prime ballerina of New York City Ballet. Maria was also the first ballerina in a century to dance for Paris Opera Ballet. In 1953, she got named “Woman of the Year”, by President Eisenhower. In the same year, the state of Oklahoma wanted June 29 to be “Maria Tallchief Day.” The title was given to her by the Osage tribe. The whole passage is about Betty Marie’s dream of being a ballerina.
The evidence in the passages supports Betty’s dream of being a ballerina because, it states all the experience she's had and how she got started in ballet. It states where she's preformed at and how she got the love of ballet. It also states all the conflicts she had to face during it all. Her career especially. The title is called “The Osage Firebird” because it states in the passage about her Osage heritage and tribe. Also, in the last paragraph, it states that she preformed a dance called “The Firebird”, which Maria combined her heritage with. People who watched her dance, said it was unbelievable and that she was really a bird of
fire.
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Maria Tallchief, or Betty Marie as she was referred to by her friends and family, was, and still is, one of the most recognized figures in ballet. Her fame is comparable to Rudolf Nureyev’s or Misty Copeland’s in that she was a revolutionary figure who helped expand the definition of what it means to be a ballerina. During the American Old West period, Maria’s grandfather helped settle a treaty with the U.S. government that gave the Osage tribe land in Oklahoma, which ties her to the Wild West. Maria became America’s first prima ballerina by becoming the prima (main) ballerina for the NYC Ballet Company, along with becoming the highest paid dancer ever of her time. Her career lasted 18 years, dancing for a multitude of companies, but the consistent
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This story is all about the Tallchief and Betty Maria,two amazing women who loved to dance.Not only Dance but did ballet.This talks about where they where she was born,how they were criticized because of race,and there amazing performances.Some even called Tallchief,The Woman of Two Worlds!The people criticized her race because teasing her did not lessen her pride in being a Osage Indian.
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