ABSTRACT
Austro-Hungarian visual artist and author Richard Erdoes (1912–2008) provided support to some of the most radical segments of the Red Power struggle, leading members of the American Indian Movement (AIM). This chapter interprets Erdoes’s role as an Austrian ally to the radical wing of the Red Power movement. Scholarly studies of figures like Erdoes can help not only improve our understanding of non-Native involvement in Red Power but also inform non-Natives’ current discussions of the ideal characteristics of allyship, solidarity with Indigenous causes, and interracial coalition building. Erdoes’s trajectory is an example of how one individual transformed the legacy of Habsburg encounters with Native Americans in the crucibles of the twentieth century and forged it into an intercontinental network for the struggle for Indigenous rights on Turtle Island.
