Honors
- The Governor of Oklahoma honored her for her international achievements and her proud Native American identity.
- Maria Tallchief was named Wa-Xthe-Thomba ("Woman of Two Worlds").
- She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996 along with Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon, Edward Albee, and Benny Carter.
- In 1999 she was awarded the American National Medal of Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- On November 7, 2006, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presented a special tribute to Maria Tallchief titled "A Tribute to Ballet Great Maria Tallchief". During which Tallchief officially named Kenneth von Heidecke as her protégé.
- Maria Tallchief is honored in Tulsa, Oklahoma, along with four other Native-American ballerinas (Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, Moscelyne Larkin and Marjorie Tallchief), with a larger than life-size bronze statue entitled "The Five Moons" in the garden of the Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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