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"So imagine that there’s an American woman, and it’s an indigenous woman, who was invited to dance in Paris"

A bronze statue of a Native ballerina was stolen, dismantled and sold for scrap in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One artist is piecing the sculpture back together in hopes that it will continue inspiring Native dancers today.

OKLAHOMA CITY ― The second annual dance festival honoring the five renowned Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma known as the Five Moons will be held Friday through Sunday, September 9-11.

At the first Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festival, in 1957, its founder, Moscelyne Larkin, danced Myrtha in Act Two of “Giselle” and Maria Tal