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Crying for a Dream: The World Through Native American Eyes
Explains how American Indians view our place in the world, looks at their history and culture, and shares the comments of individual Indians
- GenresNative American
121 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1989
About the author
Richard Erdoes
75 books41 followersRichard Erdoes was an artist, photographer, illustrator and author. He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children. Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time.
Erdoes wrote histories, collections of Native American stories and myths, and wrote about such voices of the Native American Renaissance as Leonard and Mary Crow Dog and John Fire Lame Deer. In 1975 the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Erdoes continued to write and remained active in the movement for Native American civil rights.
His papers are preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children. Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time.
Erdoes wrote histories, collections of Native American stories and myths, and wrote about such voices of the Native American Renaissance as Leonard and Mary Crow Dog and John Fire Lame Deer. In 1975 the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Erdoes continued to write and remained active in the movement for Native American civil rights.
His papers are preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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November 16, 2017
"Yo sólo tuve alucinaciones una vez. Tenía que regresar en avión a Nueva York el sábado al mediodía, así que mis amigos insistieron en celebrar una reunión especial para mí el viernes. No tomé más peyote que otras veces (en realidad, tomé menos), pero de pronto empecé a articular las palabras con torpeza, y mis movimientos se hicieron vacilantes, mi oído se agudizó y lo veía todo a mi alrededor en colores brillantes dorados. También olvidé todos mis cantos menos uno. Fue entonces cuando un caballo rojo me brindó su amistad. Lo vi, oí su relincho. Después del agua de la mañana, tuve que conducir 140 kilómetros hasta Pierre para tomar el avión, pero siempre estaba delante de mi coche de alquiler aquel caballo rojo. Yo sabía que en realidad no estaba allí, pero pisaba el freno y procuraba esquivarlo. Por último, abrí la portezuela y el caballo subió al coche conmigo. También me acompaño en el avión. En cuanto me senté en el avión, todas las canciones del peyote que había olvidado me vinieron a la mente y empecé a cantarlas, para asombro del resto de pasajeros. En el momento en que el avión tocó tierra en La Guardia, dejé de cantar, el caballo rojo desapareció y la magia se esfumó. Son los efectos de Nueva York"
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