I particularly like, and Jim Welch, although he's not new. It's an academic distinction. It's made to attract people to courses where you can lump authors together. There's a mixture of people and characters in native fiction. There's no other way I would have the artistic truth and veracity to write about all those characters.
Labels make a good headline.
I don't dislike it, but I find it tedious. I really don't feel pressure to write a certain way. The background of the characters doesn't matter. I feel that if I started thinking about all the things that other people tell you to write about or do, I would've never written in the first place. Having not done that, nothing will bother me.