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Author, Simon Ortiz promotes The American Dream by creating peace as well as stopping prejudice and hate towards Native Americans. Finally Mr. Ortiz’s writing and children books work to educate children.

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Source 1: A Conversation With Simon Ortiz

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Source 1: A Conversation With Simon Ortiz

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Simon Ortiz is living his American dream by educating people about Native Americans, and ending stereotypes and prejudice, thus accomplishing his goal of equal rights. In an interview he said “Because of the assumption made about indians. Indians live in teepees. Indians are savage and heathens and barbaric. Indians are lazy, shiftless unemployed, unemployable drunks.” People stereotype Native Americans by calling them useless, savage, lazy when in reality the stereotypes are incorrect. Simon Ortiz helps stop the negative stereotypes and prejudice by educating kids and writing novels about who native Americans really are as a people. Therefore, Mr. Ortiz is following his American Dream and at the same time making the life of others better by dispelling negative stereotypes.

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Poetry Foundation is an organization explaining Simon Ortiz’s life as a child his father gave him the name the reporter due to constantly paying attention to tribe elders, leaders and others constantly noting important details even when it got him in trouble. In a biography about his life he said “ironically, he was punished for speaking it at school. Nicknamed “the reporter” by his father for the absorbed attention he paid as a child to tribal elders’ stories” Simon Ortiz got the name reporter for his curious and adventurous childhood. His constant taking notes and listening to others helped prepare him to fight injustice in his community as he grew older. Mr Ortiz unintentionally prepared himself as a child in his fight against injustice as well as preparing to fight for his American Dream . Therefore as a child he questioned everything and went to the extent of getting punished from his curiosity although because of this it gave him valuable lessons so he could learn and form his character to be determined when fighting for something that he strongly believes in.

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A leading figure in the Native American literary renaissance that emerged in the 1960s, Simon J. Ortiz has published many books of poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction. In general, his writing is concerned with modern man's alienation from others, from himself, and from his environment-urging humanity to reconnect the wisdom of ancestral spirits and with Mother Earth. His poetry collections include Going for the Rain (1976), A Good Journey (1977), From Sand Creek (1982), Woven Stone (1992), After and Before the Lightning (1994), and Out There Somewhere (2002).

Ortiz, who is an Acoma Pueblo Indian, was born and raised near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up speaking the Acoma tongue. "This early language from birth to six years of age in the Acoma family and community," he has written, "was the basis and source for all I would do later;" ironically, he was punished for speaking it at school. Nicknamed "the reporter" by his father for the absorbed attention he paid as a child to tribal elders' stories, he has continued to base his creative work on his people's powerful oral tradition.

After attending Fort Lewis College and the University of New Mexico, Ortiz earned an MFA from the University of Iowa. During the 1960s he also served in the Army, where he suffered discrimination, and worked in a uranium mining industry whose profit-driven desecration of the land he would later movingly protest. In the early 1970s he began to write in earnest while teaching at various colleges, and in 1982 won a Pushcart Prize and a wide audience with From Sand Creek. Perhaps his most important book is 1992's Woven Stone-a blend of the poetry and prose of three earlier volumes that is a spiritual autobiography.

Simple in its diction and rhythms, Ortiz's poetry can express great reverence for beloved landscapes as well as intense rage against the de-humanizing forces of excessive development and mechanization. Apart from his own heritage, he has been influenced by Walt Whitman and the writers of the Beat movement, and he shares themes and stylistic features with fellow Native Americans Leslie Marmon Silko and N. Scott Momaday along with such environmentally engaged poets such as Gary Snyder. Ortiz currently teaches at Arizona State University, where he founded and coordinates the Indigenous Speakers Series.

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Simons Ortiz's efforts of ending inequality is beginning to create a renaissance of change in his community. ‘’Ortiz is one element of a renaissance about to occur in the American Southwest, a region that may well become one of the most agitated and lively districts of culture-making activity in the country.’’ Simon Ortiz is so impactful that he is a leading cause of a new renaissance, forming in one of the most lively places in the south west. This is an amazing accomplishment because it's extremely hard to be the cause of a renaissance and it gets his work alot of attention. Simon Ortiz does not only have an American Dream but has accomplished his dream. He has spread information about the inequality in the Native American community, and has fought for rights and peace for years. Altogether Simon Ortiz has dedicated his life to fighting injustice and is finally reaping the rewards by all the attention his books, interviews and movement has received.

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McAdams, Janet. “A Conversation with Simon Ortiz - JSTOR.” A Conversation with Simon Ortiz, Kenyon College, 2010, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40600250.

"Simon J. Ortiz." EXPLORING Poetry, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2114103202/SUIC?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=46c5b752. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.

N/A, N/A. “Simon J. Ortiz.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 2022, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/simon-j-ortiz.

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