Indigenous Authors

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

The Shiloh Renewal

By: Joan Leslie Woodruff

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Two teenage girls, sisters a year apart, are in a terrible auto accident near where they live, a few miles from the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh. Penny, the older sister, is killed outright, while Sandy, the younger, is badly injured and not expected to live.In a coma, Sandy meets people who are oddly dressed and who speak English, but not... Read more

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

By: Joseph M. Marshall

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites.The men who led the battle—Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer—have become the stuff of legends, ingrained in the lore of the American West.Here award-winning Lakota historian Joseph... Read more

Flight

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Adam Beach

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.About to commit a devastating act, young “Zits” finds himself shot back through... Read more

Ishi in Two Worlds

By: Theodora Kroeber

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse... Read more

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

By: Dee Brown

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of... Read more

To You We Shall Return

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Grandmother, you who listen and hear all, you from whom all good things come…It is your embrace we feel when we return to you.”This traditional Lakota prayer to Grandmother Earth opens Joseph Marshall III’s newest work, a meditation on our connection to the land and an exhortation to respect it. Using a combination of personal anecdote,... Read more

Life Is Your Best Medicine

By: Tieraona Low Dog

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"The division between conventional and traditional medicine is as artificial as the division between science and nature. They can be woven together in a fashion that meets our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. This is the foundation upon which integrative medicine is built."—Tieraona Low Dog, MDIn Life Is Your Best Medicine, Dr. Low Dog... Read more

Great Spirit Told Me

By: Michael Looking Coyote

Narrated by: Michael Looking Coyote

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Looking Coyote takes listeners on a meditative journey across the timeless landscape of Native American spirituality. Both relaxing and inspiring, his words will radically alter your perspective about how to achieve true peace in your life. Read more

The Worlds the Shawnees Made

By: Stephen Warren

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren... Read more

The Life of William Apess, Pequot

By: Philip F. Gura

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess' fascinating and consequential life.After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess soldiered with American troops during the War of... Read more

Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This short-story collection contains ten tales based on a diverse range of subjects, from true crime to historical fiction and fantasy. The title story, "Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky," is based on Native American folklore. "A Dark Quiet Place" is based on a true-crime incident involving a troubled boy and gun violence. In "Adirondak Mountains... Read more

Eagle Song

By: Joseph Bruchac

Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Danny Bigtree’s family has moved to a new city, and no matter how hard he tries, Danny can’t seem to fit in. He’s homesick for the Mohawk reservation where he used to live, and the kids in his class call him “Chief” and tease him about being an Indian—the thing that makes Danny most proud. Can he find the courage to stand up for himself? Read more

Robopocalypse

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.
 
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos... Read more

If I Ever Get Out of Here

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of TANTALIZE and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used... Read more

Holding Our World Together

By: Brenda J. Child

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating work, associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota and Red Lake Ojibwe Nation member Brenda J. Child spotlights the remarkable women of the Ojibwe Nation. A stunning look at a too-seldomly explored subject in history, Holding Our World Together shows how American Indian women have profoundly... Read more

Song of the Exile

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich... Read more

Medicine Walk

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Growing up in the care of the “old man” he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters that haunt the boy.

But when father, coming to the end of his alcohol-ruined life, reaches out to sixteen-year-old son... Read more

Thunder Boy Jr.

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: David Alexie

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son.

Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share... Read more

Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

By: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Narrated by: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, was the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie traveled tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless,... Read more

“I Am a Man”

By: Joe Starita

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to Oklahoma—known then as Indian Territory—in what became the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. “I Am a Man” chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their... Read more

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family... Read more

Black Elk

By: Joe Jackson

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 22 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews, it is one of the most widely read and admired works of... Read more