Maria Tallchief, the first major prima ballerina in the U.S., gracing the U.S. Mint’s 2023 $1 coin. The four other American Indian ballerinas in the background of the design, Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and Moscelyne Larkin, are celebrated as the “Five Moons”

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