Tallchief, who died in 2013, was America's first prima ballerina, and her daughter, Elise Paschen, tells PEOPLE how "exciting" it is to see her mother memorialized as a Barbie Maria Tallchief is a ...

and even a Maria Tallchief Barbie. But her legacy rests on what she brought to the art form in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s — a series of revelations about what ballet could be and what a ...