Yeah, I agree about the immigrant experience thing. And Dave's point, too, about how it's often seen as offensive to simply appropriate the Native/Amerind experience... I mean, it's impossible to escape the fact that Europe is the cultural tradition from which we hail--just as it is impossible to escape the fact this is the landscape in which we live.

I guess what I'd like to see is more white American writers who are aware of and willing to acknowledge that we are a nation full of recently displaced peoples, not all of whom have been happily living side-by-side. Because that's a much more complicated, potentially much more interesting story to tell. (As well as a truer one.)