Lists Mindanao's indigenous and contemporary literature by its 3rd and 4th generation settlers published in local publications. It argues for the important place of the literatures of Mindanao in the national literature. Moreover, it challenges scholars to further study the indigenous literatures of Mindanao in the hope of laying the groundwork for a Mindanao poetics and to follow through interdisciplinary studies of Mindanao's literature in order to give information of how a people's present belief and practices began.