PLACITAS, N.M., Aug. 28, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The pursuit for respect and recognition could go as far as using violence in order to make such pursuit come about. At least that is what the American Indian Movement or AIM was partly involved in, and this is one of the underlying themes in Gary L. Stuart's AIM For the Mayor: Echoes from Wounded Knee.

Stuart's new book incorporates history and fiction into a creative interpretation of the connections between the AIM's seventy-one-day siege of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the historically cameo abduction staged by two Navajo men in Gallup, New Mexico, and the central objectives of the AIM in general. While more novel than narrative history, AIM for Mayor is based on the emotional truths that lie beneath these violent and accordingly bloody events, supplemented with Stuart's own research into the issue, and personal interviews. Inadvertently or not, AIM For the Mayor draws attention to the AIM's call for a reversion to the old days and the bigger questions of why and how the reservation Indians were consigned to their plight.

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About the Author

Mr. Stuart is a founding fellow of the Arizona Bar Foundation, an elected member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a distinguished faculty designee in the National Institute of Trial Advocates. He is the author of six books. He divides his time between his home and part-time law practice in Phoenix, Arizona, and his full-time writing and teaching career at his summer home in Placitas, New Mexico.

                  AIM For the Mayor * by Gary L. Stuart
                        Echoes from Wounded Knee
                     Publication Date: July 21, 2008
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