New Book Chapter by György Tóth

Our WHISOL international collaborator Dr Gyorgy Toth published a book chapter titled “Richard Erdoes, Red Power’s Ally” in the volume edited by Jonathan Singerton, Marketa Krizova, and Michael Burri titled Familiar Strangers: Habsburg Encounters with Native America (Central European University Press – Amsterdam University Press, 2025). In this chapter, George interprets the work of the second half of the life of Richard Erdoes (1912-2008) as being an Austrian ally to the American Indian Movement, the radical wing of Red Power, the struggle for Native American sovereignty rights in the late 20th century. The chapter is open access, and can be found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/jj.29605650.18?seq=1
Congratulations to György for the publication from the WHISOL project team!

Chapter 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.