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 ...

The dancer, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, which is why Mattel is honoring her with an Inspiring Women Barbie doll. Tallchief's Barbie will join the likes of Florence ...

or another passion — and I hope this doll instills that power in everyone.” The Barbie depicts Tallchief in one of her signature roles, as the title character in the New York City Ballet’s 1 ...

With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif, the African-American doll not only became ... dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, she was commemorated as Barbie in 2016.