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FELLOW OSAGE WERE MURDERED.
SHE ROSE TO GREATNESS.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

In today’s newsletter, we dance to Maria Tallchief’s improbable story; examine the future of breast cancer screening ... and take a ride on the loneliest road in America.

Maria Tallchief performs the title role in George Balanchine’s revival of The Firebird. Her dramatic leap has now been memorialized on the reverse side of a U.S. quarter.

PHOTOGRAPH BY STANLEY WEISENFELD

Maria Tallchief grew up rich a century ago, living high from the family’s Osage Nation oil revenues. She felt like her dad owned their Oklahoma town.

But during these years, more than 60 Osage members were slaughtered by white settlers for their money, a terror recounted in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her cousin lost her family in a firebombing.

Tallchief made it out—and she always said her family moved to Beverly Hills so she could become a star. She did, ultimately emerging as America’s first prima ballerina. Her dramatic leap (above) in George Balanchine’s revival of The Firebird now graces brand-new U.S. quarters as part of a special series.

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STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

Early detection is key to surviving breast cancer. Regular mammograms have long been our go-to screening tool—as seen in this image of a nurse operating a mammography machine at Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) in Kampala on World Cancer Day.

PHOTOGRAPH BY NICHOLAS KAJOBA, XINHUA/EYEVINE/REDUX

When should you get screened for breast cancer—and how often? (Mammography machines like the one above have long been used for early detection.)

Britain’s real invasion of the body snatchers

Female chimps get menopause, too

What you need to know about your fitness level and risk of cancer

One of the world’s most remote volcanoes may hold something truly rare. We went to find it.

Take a tour of the Maya underworld—if you dare

This Inca girl was frozen for 500 years. She just got a new face.

10 things you should know about the Day of the Dead

See pictures of the loneliest road in America

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

PHOTOGRAPH BY RYAN BRADY

The rise of ‘Trad Catholics’: They are returning to the land—and returning to older rituals in a search for order in a chaotic world. Nat Geo portrays a turn to traditional Catholicism for some Americans. (Pictured, gathering before a traditional Mass in Syracuse, New York.)

IN WITH THE OLD

LAST GLIMPSE

A family enjoys chocolate at breakfast in this 18th-century French painting by François Boucher.

PHOTOGRAPH BY SCALA, FLORENCE

Candy already? In case you don’t have enough candy on hand before Halloween, today’s National Chocolate Day may spur you into action. Above, a family enjoys chocolate at breakfast in this 18th-century French painting by François Boucher.

GOING CUCKOO FOR COCOA

Today’s soundtrack: There’s a World, Sufjan Stevens

This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Nancy San Martín, and Jen Tse. Thanks for reading!

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