Indigenous Authors

The Gift Is in the Making

By: author

Narrated by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and to their... Read more

Walking the Old Road

By: Staci Lola Drouillard

Narrated by: Staci Lola Drouillard

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North ShoreAt the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61,... Read more

The Beadworkers

By: Beth Piatote

Narrated by: Beth Piatote, various narrators, Christian Nagl...

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beth Piatote’s luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary worldTold with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find... Read more

Winter in the Blood

By: James Welch

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis & Tanis Parenteau

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Washington Post

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter... Read more

Fight or Submit

By: Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his "story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles" that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. "As a businessman," he writes, "I like to give the straight goods."



In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it... Read more

My Conversations With Canadians

By: Lee Maracle

Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award
Shortlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 2018-2019 AwardOn her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless... Read more

The Language Warrior's Manifesto

By: Anton Treuer

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Across North America, dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures. Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction, the five hundred languages spoken on the continent before contact have dwindled to about 150. Their ongoing survival depends on immediate,... Read more

Unsettling Canada

By: Arthur Manuel & Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson. Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the differences between... Read more

Blue Bear Woman

By: Virginia Pesempaeo Bordeleau

Narrated by: Tai Amy Grauman

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleue is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman’s search for her roots and identity, this is also the author’s debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a “texte de... Read more

Indigenous Writes

By: Chelsea Vowel

Narrated by: Brianne Tucker

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace… Are you familiar with the terms listed above? In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue... Read more

One Bead at a Time

By: Beverly Little Thunder

Narrated by: Jules Koostachin

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder’s narrative... Read more

Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.



One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until is starts killing.



Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He'll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best... Read more

Rez Dogs

By: Joseph Bruchac

Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic.

Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation—she’s there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s... Read more

Murder on the Red River

By: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash—a twenty-something tough, smart Indian woman with special seeing powers.Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother’s wrecked car when she was three. He’s kept an eye out for her ever since. It’s a tough place to live—northern Minnesota along the Red... Read more

Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage

By: Darnella Davis

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in... Read more

The Hopi Survival Kit

By: Thomas E. Mails

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old covenant that was created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. But the elders are dying, and there is no one left to pass on its remarkable teachings.... Read more

A Generous Spirit

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Narrated by: Michelle Thrush

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant’s work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represent continued strength, growth, and connection in the face of deep suffering. A Generous Spirit is... Read more

Born Into This

By: Adam Thompson

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam... Read more

Seven Fallen Feathers

By: Tanya Talaga

Narrated by: Michaela Washburn

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple... Read more

Grandmother’s Stories

By: Daniel Auger

Narrated by: Nimet Kanji

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

My grandmother was the greatest storyteller I have known. In her soft voice, she spoke of heroes and giants, of evil deeds and of mysterious spirits. Sometimes her stories were short, others epic, but she always managed to hold my brother and me completely under her spell. She seemed to have an infinite supply, at times telling a tale of the... Read more

Watishka Warriors

By: Daniel Auger

Narrated by: Bobbi Goddard

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After living away for years, Sandy Lafonde returns to her childhood home at the Watishka First Nation reserve. Little has changed since she left — a local gang menaces the area, the community is splintered and the Cree youth are left restless and frustrated. Sandy realizes that she needs to do something to help, so she proposes to start a... Read more

From the Ashes

By: Jesse Thistle

Narrated by: Jesse Thistle

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is “an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and freedom” (Amanda Lindhout, bestselling coauthor of A House in... Read more

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

By: Kyle T. Mays

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more

White Magic

By: Elissa Washuta

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt... Read more