ABSTRACT
Central European depictions of Indigenous North American people and understandings of our cultures are often based on static nineteenth-century images of a tragic yet romantically appealing noble savage; this representation, as I have explored elsewhere in the eighteenth-century British context, tells us less about Indigenous cultures than about the fears and desires of the cultures utilizing these representations. 1 Yet, despite this frequent lack of engagement with our living and enduring cultural presents, there is an historical relationship between various Indigenous nations and the lands once ruled by the Habsburgs. This volume begins the work of unpacking this relationship in various productive sites.
