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Native America Calling
March 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 – Larry Casuse: taking an ill-fated stand
Larry Casuse was shot to death by Gallup, NM police in 1973 as he carried out a desperate, radical act to try and help his people. Casuse was still a teenager, trying to call attention to unscrupulous business practices at a bar that was the epicenter of a disproportionate number of Native American deaths. His frustration boiled over when the bar’s owner—the city’s mayor—kept getting rewarded instead of punished by elected leaders. We learn about this forgotten story from a complicated era.
