Amerindian literature is a significant factor in the Guyanese cultural heritage, and it is important to highlight its contribution at a time when there is a focus on the Amerindian heritage in the country. The literature is wide-ranging and reaches across various accounts including the anthropological, the historical, the scientific and the critical, in addition to the corpus of creative literature. Going still further into the various sub-divisions, there is the literature generated by the Amerindian
