Gary L. Stuart

AIM For The Mayor (eBook, ePUB)

Echoes From Wounded Knee

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Produktbeschreibung

On April 27, 1973, some 200 militant Indians occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota. In the name of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Russell Means and Dennis Banks took 11 hostages and began what would become a 75-day siege of the town.

Two days later, in the name of Indians Against Exploitation (IAE), Larry Casuse and Robert Nakaidinae abducted the Mayor of Gallup (Emmet Garcia) from his office and marched him at gunpoint through a part of downtown Gallup. They barricaded themselves in a sporting goods store and demanded political relief and attention to their cause. Nakaidinae shot the mayor as he attempted to escape. He survived his wounds.

Larry Casuse died in a hail of police bullets but was said by the police and the local coroner to have committed suicide. The abduction was apparently carried out because Casuse and Nakaidinae perceived the mayor as symbolic of the way Indians were mistreated in Gallup. They alleged Garcia to be responsible for both Indian alcohol abuse and a general lack of respect for Indians. The abduction in Gallup by militant members of IAE and the siege at Wounded Knee by the militant members of AIM were connected loosely in the press and seemed to be mutually supportive of the broader issue of Indian civil rights.

Casuse was the president of the Kiva Club, an Indian rights group on campus at UNM. He was very vocal in opposing Garcia's appointment to the UNM Board of Regents and his chairmanship of the Indian alcohol rehabilitation project in Gallup. Nakaidinae was also a Kiva Club member.

Garcia was part owner of a package liquor store called The Navajo Inn located on the Arizona/New Mexico border just a few yards away from the Navajo reservation. Garcia was a recent political appointee to the Board of Regents for the University of New Mexico.

The abduction of the Mayor and the death of Casuse were major regional news stories. A great deal of attention was focused on the problem of alcohol abuse among the tens of thousands of Navajos who visit Gallup every week. Some Indians felt that the white population in Gallup disrespected Navajo cultural traditions and didn't do enough to help the Navajo with its historic battle with alcohol abuse. Some whites felt that the Navajos who came to town to drink were a public nuisance.

Largely as a result of the abduction and the resultant publicity, Garcia lost his reelection bid for a second term as mayor on April 3, 1973. He resigned his chairmanship of the Gallup Alcohol Rehabilitation Committee, and his position on the UNM Board of Regents. Then he sold his interest in The Navajo Inn and moved with his family to Arizona in May of 1973. He never returned to Gallup.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781626751675
• Artikelnr.: 38338453

Autorenporträt

I am a retiring lawyer, a working author, and a preserving blogger. I was a full-time trial lawyer for thirty-two years in a large Phoenix firm. I was a part-time law professor for the last twenty-nine years. As of summer, 2023, I am writing, publishing, and blogging full time. My first book was a textbook published by the Arizona State Bar Association. My first novel was published by the University of New Mexico Press. I've written ten novels and eight nonfiction titles as of July 2023.From the day I entered law school, I've been reading cases, statutory law and writing about legal conundrums and flaws in our criminal and civil justice systems. I've always read novels, nonfiction, and historical fiction by great authors who were never corrupted by the staid habits of trial lawyers. I write long-form, interspersed with the occasional blog, op-ed, or essay. One of the unexpected benefits of reading the law is learning how to write about it. Somewhere along the trajectory from a baby lawyer to a senior one, I became intoxicated with blending nonfiction with fiction in books, rather than legal documents. After spending thirty years in courtrooms trying cases, I started writing aboutthem. That led to writing novels while borrowing from famous historical settings and lesser-known characters. My courtroom days were chock full of ideas, notions, and hopes about ultimately becoming an author. I organized and memorized critical information for judges, juries, and clients. Now I use that experience to write vivid fiction and immersive nonfiction. I moved away from trial practice to teaching law students how to use creative writing techniques to tell their client's stories, in short form.F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." The same could be said of my transition from trying cases to writing crime fiction. I've been holding my breath for twenty years waiting for galley proofs and book reviews. Anais Nin spoke for all of us when she said, "We write to taste life twice."My first novel, The Gallup 14, won a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly. I won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2004 for my first nonfiction book ("Miranda, The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent"). I won the 2010 Arizona Book of the Year Award, The Glyph Award, and a Southwest Publishing Top Twenty award in 2010, for "Innocent Until Interrogated-The Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre." My third nonfiction title ("Anatomy of a Confession-The Debra Milke Case") was highly acclaimed. My nonfiction title "CALL HIM MAC-Ernest W. McFarland-The Arizona Years" was widely and favorably reviewed. My latest nonfiction crime book, "Nobody Did Anything Wrong But Me, was published by Twelve Tables Press, one of America's most distinguished publisher of law books about important legal issues. No New York Times bestsellers, yet.