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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 Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others.

Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Five Native American dancers from Oklahoma who took the international ballet world by storm in the 20th century are continuing to shine.  

With their talent at lighting up stages, the ballerinas — Maria Tallchief, Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin and Rosella Hightower — became known as the Five Moons.  

The legacy of the trailblazing ballerinas will be honored at the second annual Five Moons Dance Festival Sept. 9-11 at the First Americans Museum and on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.  

Hosted by the OU School of Dance, the three-day event was created not only to celebrate the achievements of the Five Moons but also to provide a platform for female choreographers from historically underrepresented populations.

This year’s festival will spotlight Larkin, with performing groups to include the Tulsa Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Eastern Shawnee Stomp Dancers, Peoria Children’s Choir and students from the OU School of Dance. Featured choreographers will include Sidra Bell, Robyn Mineko Williams and OU alumna Maggie Boyett.

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This year's Five Moons Dance Festival kicks off just days after the U.S. Mint revealed the design for an upcoming quarter featuring Maria Tallchief. Due out in 2023, the Maria Tallchief Quarter is the 10th coin in the American Women Quarters Program.  

Why are they called the Five Moons?  

The moniker “Five Moons” evolved from the Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festivals that took place in 1957 and 1967 to celebrate the 50th and 60th anniversaries of Oklahoma statehood. The 1967 festival included a ballet created by Cherokee composer Louis Ballard Sr. called "The Four Moons" performed by four of the five ballerinas — Maria Tallchief had already retired from performing — featuring solos honoring each dancer's heritage. 

Oklahoma Native American artist Jerome Tiger (Mus

Myra Yvonne Chouteau () (March 7, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was an American ballerina and one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. She was the only child of Corbett Edward and Lucy Annette Chouteau. She was born March 7, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1943, she became the youngest dancer ever accepted to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where she worked for fourteen years. In 1962, she and her husband, Miguel Terekhov, founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she also had French ancestry, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau. From the Chouteau family of St. Louis, he established Oklahoma's oldest European-American settlement, at the present site of Salina, in 1796. She grew up in Vinita, Oklahoma.

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Five Native American dancers from Oklahoma took the international ballet world by storm in the 20th century. 

With their talent at illuminating stages, the ballerinas — Maria Tallchief, Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin and Rosella Hightower — became known as the Five Moons. 

Almost 100 years after they were born, dancers from across Oklahoma and beyond are shining a light on the trailblazing ballerinas at the inaugural Five Moons Dance Festival Aug. 27-29 at the University of Oklahoma. 

Hosted by the OU School of Dance, which Chouteau founded with her husband and fellow dancer Miguel Terekhov, the festival was created not only to celebrate the achievements of the Five Moons but also to provide a platform for female choreographers from historically underrepresented populations. 

“A dance festival honoring and celebrating the legacy of the Five Moons ballerinas is long overdue," said Warren Queton (Kiowa), a festival planning committee member and former tribal liaison at the OU Office of Diversity and Inclusion. "American Indian people are a dancing people and always have been. Dance is an important part of our identity. It is important to recognize and encourage talent aspiring to follow in the footsteps of the Five Moons and become ballet dancers and choreographers in a field where American Indians are an underrepresented population.”

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What will the festival include?

The three-day Norman event will include a sold-out Aug. 27 reception at Boyd House; a sold-out Aug. 28 symposium at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; and a 3 p.m. Aug. 29 performance inside Elsie C. Brackett Theatre. 

Originally scheduled for spring 2020 and delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will include performers from the American Ballet Theatre, Oklahoma City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Osage Ballet and OU Sch