Indigenous Authors

The Grass Dancer

By: Susan Power

Narrated by: Susan Power

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young sacred clown, loved and lost to death the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. As their spirits seek desperately to be reunited, they influence the sometimes violent fate of those who have followed them. Now in the 1980s, Red Dress's teenage descendant Charlene Thunder has fallen hopelessly in love... Read more

The Spy Lover

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Thrust into the savagery of the Civil War, a Chinese immigrant serving in the Union Army, a nurse doubling as a spy for the North, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined.Fleeing drought and famine in China, Johnny Tom arrives in America with dreams of becoming a citizen. Having survived vigilantes hunting... Read more

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

They’re known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals—children with inexplicable abilities—and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm’s way. Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals have taken refuge in the Firstwood, a forest eerily conscious of its inhabitants, where they... Read more

The Disappearance of Ember Crow

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

Narrated by: Cara Gee

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fast-paced sequel to The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Ashala and her friends face a new danger from the least expected source—one of their own.After a daring raid on Detention Center 3 to rescue their trapped peers, Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals—children with powerful and inexplicable abilities—are once again entrenched... Read more

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition)

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and... Read more

The Four Sacred Gifts

By: Anita L. Sanchez

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Four Sacred Gifts, visionary international business consultant Anita Sanchez, PhD, reveals the timely prophecy entrusted to her by a global collective of indigenous elders—four guiding gifts that “will allow you to set yourself free to live your most successful life…learn how to forgive, to heal, to unite with all life, and to revitalize... Read more

Pushing the Bear

By: Diane Glancy

Narrated by: George Guidall, Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Barbar...

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1838, thirteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek-the Trail of Tears-takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only... Read more

Guardian Angels and Other Monsters

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.

In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying... Read more

The Reason You Walk

By: Wab Kinew

Narrated by: Wab Kinew

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist.
          When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans... Read more

Dream Wheels

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitter depression, but without success. Meanwhile, in a distant city, a troubled young kid named... Read more

Atlas of a Lost World

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How... Read more

Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a... Read more

Where the Dead Sit Talking

By: Brandon Hobson

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface—that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old... Read more

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

By: David M. Buerge

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times—the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific... Read more

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

By: Lili‘uokalani

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.



Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... Read more

Give Me Some Truth

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth & Brittany LeBorgne

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR Best Books of the Year * Boston Globe Best Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Chicago Public Library Best Books of the YearA powerful new book from Eric Gansworth, author of If I Ever Get Out of Here, that speaks the truth on race, relationships, and rock from two unforgettable perspectives.Carson Mastick is... Read more

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from... Read more

Keeper'n Me

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Deneh'Cho Thompson & Sam Bob

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.

Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds... Read more

Medicine River

By: Thomas King

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native photographer. Somehow, that’s exactly what happens.

Through Will’s... Read more

As Long as Grass Grows

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty... Read more

One Story, One Song

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in... Read more

Resistance

By: Tori Amos

Narrated by: Tori Amos

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music... Read more

One Native Life

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled—from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism—in reclaiming his identity. It’s about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years on Earth.Whether he’s writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock, or... Read more

Embers

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on—and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits... Read more