Incorporating AI Lit into all facets of Lit

So, this question really got me thinking. How can we, as future educators, change the perception of American Indian literature? I know that I was not exposed to much, if any, American Indian literature in my high school or grade school. I remember reading Indian in the Cupboard, but that was on my own in grade school so I'm sure I wasn't reading critically or thinking about the book after I finished it.
I don't think that literature/poems written by American Indians should be put in their own separate category...i.e. we only teach them when talking about Early American History. This makes the Indians appear as though they don't exist anymore, that they aren't producing literature today. I think that the exposure that we have gotten in this class will definitely be useful to me in the future. I would love to be able to talk about e.e. cummings and then use Quo-Li Driskill in the same unit. I think that acknowledging the background of the author is important but separating the authors into White/African American/American Indian, etc. is more damaging than anything. It is saying that these authors can't be read together...that we can't find commonalities among all the works. I think that we can and should and need to interweave the authors of all backgrounds into major themes not timelines.
I hope to be able to use something from this course next year when I student teach. I am challenging myself to somehow incorporate a modern poem or story written by an American Indian into my students' lives. I know this movement, if one wants to call it that, needs to start small in a single classroom and then it will hopefully multiply and change views of other people.