Identifying with Tribal Heritage in Contemporary American Indian Poetry--A Case Study of Hajo, 0rtiz and Hogan

Since American Indian Renaissance, a new generation of Indian writers and poets with a strong sense of national pride takes up writing as a weapon of political liberation, proclaiming their dismissal of assimilation and articulating the desire to identify with their ancestral heritages.As representative figures of contemporary American Indian poetry, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz and Linda Hogan infuse their poem-writing with traditional Indian culture such as affiliating with land, storytelling and vision so as to highlight Indian narrative discourse and mythology that are differenting from dominant culture.