Aim for the Mayor

America 's last conflict with its first people raged from Wounded Knee South Dakota to Gallup New Mexico in the spring of 1973. Death a police shoot-out and political intrigue drive the true story of the abduction of a small-town mayor by two young members of the American Indian Movement then calling itself AIM as they marched him at gunpoint through downtown Gallup. The siege and taking of eleven hostages in Wounded Knee overshadowed at least nationally the now largely forgotten story of Larry Casuse activist and Frank Garcia idealist. But as the fictional characters in this novel learn both stories started with the takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969.