Maria Tallchief, (Native) America's Prima Ballerina: Autobiographies of a Postindian Princess
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shannon Toll
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 50-70
Description
Draws on Tallchief’s autobiography and examines the role that she, using her cultural influence to exert her agency, played in complicating the colonial princess – squaw dichotomy imposed on Indigenous women in the United States.