Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Myra Yvonne Chouteau (born March 7, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas) is one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. In 1962 she and her husband founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, at the University of Oklahoma. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau, who established Oklahoma's oldest white settlement, at the present site of Salina, in 1796. She grew up in Vinita, Oklahoma. Governor Frank Keating designated her an Oklahoma Treasure on October 8, 1997, and she appears in the mural "Flight of Spirit, by Chickasaw Mike Larsen in the Oklahoma Capitol Rotunda, and in The Five Moons, a set of bronze sculptures by artist Gary Henson on the west lawn of the Tulsa Historical Society. When the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington D.C. in 2004, she was honored with the inaugural National Cultural Treasures Award, celebrating her contribution to the nation's cultural heritage.

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