Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
Stolen
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
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A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.
On a winter day north of the... Read more
Classified
By: Traci Sorell
Narrated by: DeLanna Studi, Traci Sorell & John Ross
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. This story traces her journey from being the only girl in a high-school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native... Read more
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By: Ramona Emerson
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.As a lone portal to... Read more
View audiobookEverything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
By: Dr. Anton Treuer
Narrated by: Dr. Anton Treuer
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young listeners alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?," "What's it like for... Read more
View audiobookTread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca... Read more
View audiobookWhite Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed
"Narrator Tonantzin Carmelo’s portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal
Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she... Read more
The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions... Read more
View audiobookThe Everlasting Road
By: Wab Kinew
Narrated by: Michelle Bardach
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.
Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz... Read more
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jen Ferguson
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award... Read more
View audiobookA Snake Falls to Earth
By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of... Read more
The Great Bear
By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time.
Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan... Read more
Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodies―bodies of... Read more
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil,... Read more
Kiss of the Fur Queen
By: Tomson Highway
Narrated by: Patricia Cano
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests.
As young men, estranged from... Read more
Call Me Indian
By: Fred Sasakamoose
Narrated by: Wilton Littlechild
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
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"Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person."
--Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba... Read more
The Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more
View audiobookThe Barren Grounds
By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their... Read more
The Death of Sitting Bear
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.
“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more
This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more
Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more
LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionFinalist for the PEN Faulkner AwardIn this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale... Read more
View audiobookThe Journey of Crazy Horse
By: Joseph Marshall
Narrated by: Joseph Marshall
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating... Read more
View audiobookInheritance
By: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn & Mi...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Three people – Indigenous, immigrant, and settler – journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom.
An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when... Read more
Thunder Song
By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more
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