multi-ethmic writers A more authentic American literal t and American literature is becoming more inclusive to its history is now in the process of being written which will exclude none of its multiracial facets. The recent literary scene is already becoming amazingly colorful X Let's begin with the Native American literature first.The image of the American Indians in American literature has been for a long time a distorted one, presented by non Indian authors; they appear good or bad not as the American Indians see themselves, but as some white authors conceive of them. Thus, whatever portrayal of them there is in mainstream literature has been once or twice removed from the truth k At the time of European settlement, well over three hundred Indian cultures existed in the north American continent. The different nations of the American Indians such as Lakota, Hopi, chickasaw, and Mohawk all had their own separate civilizationsand American literature is becoming more inclusive to its multi-ethnic writers. A more authentic American literary history is now in the process of being written which will exclude none of its multiracial facets. The recent literary scene is already becoming amazingly colorful. ＊Let's begin with the Native American literature first. The image of the American Indians in American literature has been for a long time a distorted one, presented by non￾Indian authors; they appear good or bad not as the American Indians see themselves, but as some white authors conceive of them. Thus, whatever portrayal of them there is in mainstream literature has been once or twice removed from the truth. ＊At the time of European settlement, well over three hundred Indian cultures existed in the North American continent. The different nations of the American Indians such as Lakota, Hopi, Chickasaw, and Mohawk all had their own separate civilizations