Betty Marie Tallchief

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Betty Marie was a shy, Indian girl who loved dancing to ballet. She had amazing talent, but sometimes she was faced with prejudice.During her career, she changed her name to Maria, but she left her last name “Tallchief” because she had much pride in it. Betty Marie “Maria” Tallchief was truly a woman of two worlds.Ballet usually took the shy feeling away from because she loved it so much.
Betty Marie was an amazingly talented girl ,who loved ballet. In the passage, it states that “ballet brought her out of her shell”. Betty Marie took her first ballet lesson when she was four years young. She was so talented that she became a local star and performed at rodeos. She was always involved in ballet because she loved it so much.
Tallchief had great

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