Page 3 - Four Moons News Today

Here's a look at events that happened in Central Jersey from five, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago this week.

With the Mexican drama described by Letras Libres as "a movie about what makes us human [and the] hope of a better tomorrow, no matter how hard it seems," writer/director Sergio Tovar Velarde's Four Moons will be screened at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on June 11, this 2014 critical hit the second of four award-winning independent films to be shown throughout June in

U of A musicians performed with the Fort Smith Symphone during recording of five works by Native American composer Louis Ballard, with a release date anticipated for the album in fall this year.

Louis Wayne Ballard -- or "Honga-no-zhe," meaning "Grand Eagle" in Quapaw -- was born on July 8, 1931, in Devils Promenade, Okla., near Miami. His mother was Quapaw; his father Cherokee. At 6, he was sent to the Seneca Indian Training School, where the goal was to assimilate him into white American culture.

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.

The legacy of the trailblazing ballerinas will be honored at the second annual Five Moons Dance Festival, hosted by the OU School of Dance.

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