The right answer is <em>D. “It reinforces the idea that Ortiz's cultural background shaped his identity and how he views the world.” </em>Ortiz is a writer from Acoma Pueblo, highly respected and recognized for his poetry filled with a consciousness of Native American history, mythology, philosophy, and social concerns. Ortiz's poems have a simple and direct language that reflects the oral storytelling tradition of the people form his hometown, and typically its point of view is from an observer, making comparisons with Indian and contemporary American lifestyles. Ortiz’s support is his native American heritage and identity and he frequently writes with an ironic or unhappy tone as he comments on the racial, ideological, and material worries of the late twentieth century.
