In many ways. Frances s message to the world is. I speak Sioux with a Viennese accent. When the political ferment of the 1960s and 1970s brought embattled leaders of the American Indian Movement to Richard Erdoes' door, he took them right in. A refugee from Hitler Europe, he remembered the anti-Nazi movement.
Refugees learn to improvise.
Richard had that knack. Born in Frankfurt in 1912 in a family of opera singers, pianists and composers, he studied at the Berlin Academy, contributing cartoons to anti-Nazi publications. When Hitler seized Austria in 1938, Richard escaped by skiing across the border into Switzerland. He arrived in New York with only five dollars. In time he won assignments with Life magazine.