Abstract
THOUGH THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT INFALLIBLE INDICES TO CANON revision, the annual eight-hundred sessions of the MLA Convention do, at least, suggest trends. The distribution of sessions during the past few years and American Indian literature's recent elevation from discussion group to division status (a key bureaucratic and symbolic step) indicate a growing, though highly selective, interest in Native American literature. Most of the sessions and individual papers focus on fiction and autobiography. This imbalance was predictable. When English professors incorporate new texts into their courses and scholarship, they incline toward familiar forms and accessible and recognizable texts. Certainly modem fiction fits that formula. Novels by N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and James Welch are respected and are, for most English teachers,
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