Abstract
Literature could articulate the truths about the past that history has muffled. This truism manifests itself through the rigid policies that Euro-Americans have practiced against the Native American literary production. For centuries, Native American literature was ignored and misrepresented. It was rarely included in academic courses before the 1970s. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, various literary and social events helped to subside this oppressive system. The dawn of 1970 witnessed the advent of a group of creative Indian American writers such as: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko. The appearance of those prolific writers synchronized broad social movements such as Civil Rights, Ethnic studies, and feminism. These events collaborated to bring Native American literature to its due status. Discriminatory and genocidal practices of European colonizers are still alive in the memories of Native American peoples. Being fully conscious of their dilemmas, Native American poets use their poetry to resist Euro-Americans' hegemony and revitalize racial...
