{"id":45587,"date":"2016-02-11T03:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T03:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45587"},"modified":"2016-05-01T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T18:13:04","slug":"yvonne-chouteau-native-american-ballerina-dies-at-86%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45587","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-01-29<\/p>\n

Jack Anderson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nYvonne Chouteau<\/a>, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma<\/a> ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Yvonne Chouteau<\/a>, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo<\/a> who emerged as one of a celebrated group of dancers known as the American Indian ballerinas of Oklahoma<\/a>, died on Sunday at her home in Oklahoma City<\/a>. She was 86.<\/p>\n

The cause was congestive heart failure<\/a>, said Mary Margaret Holt<\/a>, director of the School of Dance and dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma. Ms. Chouteau was a founder of the dance school, one of the leading institutions of its kind in the Southwest<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…Part French and part Shawnee<\/a>–Cherokee<\/a>, Myra Yvonne Chouteau was born into a pioneering Southwestern family in Fort Worth<\/a> on March 7, 1929, the only child of Corbett Edward Chouteau<\/a> and the former Lucy Annette Taylor. The family soon moved to Vinita, Okla.<\/a>, and her father, who was known as C. E. Chouteau, became a prominent American Indian figure in the state.<\/p>\n

Ms. Chouteau was a direct descendant of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau<\/a> (1758-1849), who established Oklahoma\u2019s oldest white settlement in 1796…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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