wrote the music for the ballet, The Four Moons, for the Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Festival. The ballet honors the Five Moons : Larkin, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and sisters Maria and Marjorie Tallchief. In its solos, the dancers evoked their four distinct tribal cultures. Larkin was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1978. In 1988, she received the annual Dance Magazine Award. In 1993, she was inducted in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. The Council of American Indians honored her as "Outstanding Indian" that same year. Chickasaw artist Mike Larsen included Larkin in his monumental mural, Flight of Spirit, displayed in the Great Rotunda of the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. Death Larkin suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 25, 2012 from pneumonia. She is survived by her son, Roman Larkin Jasinski. References 1925 births 2012 deaths People from Miami, Oklahoma Artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma Prima ballerinas Ballets Russes dancers Ballet teachers American ballerinas American people of Russian descent American people of Welsh descent Peoria people Native American dancers Eastern Shawnee people University of Tulsa faculty Five Moons American women academics 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native Americans 20th-century Native American women 21st-century Native American women 20th-century American ballet dancers