Myra yvonne chouteau biography channel

  • Part French and part Shawnee-Cherokee, Myra Yvonne Chouteau was born into a pioneering Southwestern family in Fort Worth on March 7, 1929.
  • Chouteau's first national appearance came in 1933 in Chicago during “A Century of Progress” where she represented Oklahoma on American Indian.
  • Chouteau is survived by her daughters, Elizabeth and Christina, and by two grandsons.

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    American Ballet Theatre records

    1936-ca. 1967

    Mikhail Mordkin was born in Moscow in 1881. He was a graduate of the Imperial Ballet School there and eventually became a leading dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1910, he partnered Anna Pavlova at the storstads- Opera House in New York and on a tour of the United States. He left Russia in 1923, settled in New York, and in 1927, opened a ballet school in Carnegie Hall. By 1936, according to an advertisement of the time, his school offered “complete ballet training, mimo-drama classes, [and a] rehearsal group [that would] prepare ballets for performances.” This group, the Mikhail Mordkin Ballet, was an outlet for advanced students (with Mordkin himself dancing main character parts). On månad 19, 1936, the company presented Sleeping Beauty,sponsored by the Woman's Club of Waterbury, Connecticut, with Lucia Chase and Dimitri Romanoff in the leading roles.

    Plans for the student company became more ambitious. Advance Productio

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    Timeline of Texas Women’s History

     

    Paleoindian Period – 1835

    ca. 12,000 BCE – ca. 8,000 BCE

    • Paleoindian women are important to the survival of their bands, helping men hunt, butcher animals, and dress the hides; they also gather seeds, nuts, and berries for sustaining their families.
    • Most Indian peoples are female-centered; some are matrifocal (with the mother's role central to the group), some are matrilineal (tracing descent through the mother), and some are matrilocal (a man lives with his wife's family after marriage).

    ca. 8,000 BCE – ca. 800 CE

    • During the Archaic Period, women's importance to the economy increases due to their roles in providing food for family sustenance.

    ca. 700

    • Some women of the Caddo tribe, in present-day east and northeast Texas, become priest-chiefs (xinesí) possessing religious and political authority.

    ca. 800

    • Caddo women make some of the most renowned ceramic
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      I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native

      University of Pennsylvania Press
      2021
      224 pages
      10 b/w
      6 x 9
      Cloth ISBN: 9780812253030

      Alaina E. Roberts, Assistant Professor of History
      University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

      Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, in the Historical Era category, granted by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

      Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule“—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I’ve Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.

      In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of C