Myra yvonne chouteau biography of donald

Myra Yvonne Chouteau () (March 7, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was an American ballerina and one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. She was the only child of Corbett Edward and Lucy Annette Chouteau. She was born March 7, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1943, she became the youngest dancer ever accepted to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where she worked for fourteen years. In 1962, she and her husband, Miguel Terekhov, founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she also had French ancestry, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau. From the Chouteau family of St. Louis, he established Oklahoma's oldest European-American settlement, at the present site of Salina, in 1796. She grew up in Vinita, Oklahoma.

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Who are the Five Moons? Oklahoma's Native American ballerinas to be honored at festival

Five Native American dancers from Oklahoma who took the international ballet world by storm in the 20th century are continuing to shine.  

With their talent at lighting up stages, the ballerinas — Maria Tallchief, Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin and Rosella Hightower — became known as the Five Moons.  

The legacy of the trailblazing ballerinas will be honored at the second annual fem Moons Dance Festival Sept. 9-11 at the First Americans Museum and on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.  

Hosted bygd the OU School of Dance, the three-day event was created not only to celebrate the achievements of the Five Moons but also to provide a platform for kvinnlig choreographers from historically underrepresented populations.

This year’s festival will spotlight Larkin, with performing groups to include the Tulsa Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Eastern Shawnee Stomp Dancers, Peor

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I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native

University of Pennsylvania Press
2021
224 pages
10 b/w
6 x 9
Cloth ISBN: 9780812253030

Alaina E. Roberts, Assistant Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, in the Historical Era category, granted by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule“—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I’ve Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.

In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of C