Indigenous Authors

The Drover's Wife

By: Leah Purcell

Narrated by: Leah Purcell

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, live Molly Johnson and her children. Husband Joe is away droving, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly's children are her world, and life is hard with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection - but it can be harder when Joe's... Read more

Thinning Blood

By: Leah Myers

Narrated by: Kimberly Woods

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions



Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her... Read more

The Half-White Album

By: Cynthia J. Sylvester

Narrated by: Cynthia Sylvester

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give listeners a poignant though fractured view of her characters' lives, their loves, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band,... Read more

My Journey to the World Cup

By: Sam Kerr

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup.

Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before... Read more

Avenue of Champions

By: Conor Kerr

Narrated by: Jani Lauzon & Shane Ghostkeeper

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the... Read more

In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives... Read more

Los asesinos de la luna

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Julio Caycedo

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro en que se basa la nueva película de Martin Scorsese, protagonizada por Leonardo DiCaprio y Robert De Niro, entre otros. El autor de Z, la ciudad perdida, David Grann, regresa con un emocionante True Crime que desvela una de las conspiraciones más monstruosas de la historia de Estados Unidos. Best Seller de The New York Times, mejor... Read more

Seeing Red

By: Michael John Witgen

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Aki-wayn-zih

By: Eli Baxter

Narrated by: Eli Baxter

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Members of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life... Read more

La historia indígena de Estados Unidos

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Narrated by: Diana Elizabeth Torres

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Una historia de Estados Unidos contada desde la perspectiva de los pueblos indígenas. El libro en el que se basa el documental de HBO Exterminad a todos los salvajes Hoy en día en Estados Unidos hay más de quinientas naciones indígenas reconocidas por el Gobierno federal que comprenden casi tres millones de personas, descendientes de los quince... Read more

Lytton

By: Peter Edwards & Kevin Loring

Narrated by: Kevin Loring & Wayne Ward

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.

“It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire. It took a... 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

A Constellation of Minor Bears

By: Jen Ferguson

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden, Jesse Nobess & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today BestsellerAward-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship—and how to move forward with a life that’s not what they’d imagined.          Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The... Read more

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

By: William Berens & A. Irving Hallowell

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because... Read more

Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer

Narrated by: Anton Treuer

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who... Read more

Sweetest Kulu

By: Celina Kalluk

Narrated by: Celina Kalluk

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of a Wordcraft Circle Award Named Best Bedtime Book Huffington Post Selected as Top Summer Read for the TD Summer Reading Club "Dream a little, Kulu, this world now sings a most beautiful song of you." This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by... Read more

Here, There, Elsewhere

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, and Roads to Quoz, a dazzling collection of travel tales from the road.

Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these pieces take us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to... Read more

Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more

The Plague of Doves

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Peter Francis James & Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American... Read more

Shadow Tag

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth... Read more

The Soul of the Indian and Seven Native American Tales

By: Charles Alexander Eastman

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Alexander Eastman, an educated and well-known Sioux, saw both sides of the great divide between Indians and whites, and he wrote eleven books attempting to reconcile the two cultures. Although he was a convert to Christianity, Eastman never lost his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indian's relation to his existence and to the... Read more

The Lakota Way

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way offers a fresh and compelling outlook on spiritual and ethical living.Joseph M. Marshall III, a gifted storyteller, historian, and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The... Read more