By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having ... of Newsweek (“The Ballet’s Tallchief: Native Dancer”), a glittering tiara atop her dark hair, her gaze toward the sky.

But Tallchief refused and insisted on dancing as Maria Tallchief, keeping her Osage name, according to a biography of the ballerina by the School of American Ballet. “She spent a lot of time in ...