Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
Berry Song
By: Michaela Goade
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A Caldecott Honor Book!
An Indie Bestseller!
Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders.
On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from... Read more
Indigenous Ingenuity
By: Deidre Havrelock & Edward Kay
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrate Indigenous thinkers and inventions with this beautifully designed, award-winning interactive nonfiction bookâperfect for fans of Braiding Sweetgrass. Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would... Read more
View audiobookA Shadow Crown
By: Melissa Blair
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.To the kingdom, Keera is the kingâs Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadowâthe dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more
View audiobookGrandma's Tipi
By: S. D. Nelson
Narrated by: Jashaun St. John
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Now that Clara is almost in third grade, sheâs finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi thatâs been passed down through their family for... Read more
View audiobookAntelope Woman
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrichâs 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the authorâa riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.âAudacious and surprising. . . . One of Americaâs most... Read more
View audiobookSearching for Savanna
By: Mona Gable
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping and illuminating investigation âthat is far overdueâ (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government... Read more
View audiobookWarrior Princesses Strike Back
By: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White
Narrated by: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery, Warrior Princesses Strike Back focuses how Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary truth and healing.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in... Read more
My Powerful Hair
By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Our ancestors say our hair is our memories, our source of strength and power, a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hairâshe was told it was too wild. Grandma couldnât have long hairâhers was taken from her. But one young girl canât wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth,... Read more
View audiobookSisters of the Lost Nation
By: Nick Medina
Narrated by: Elva Guerra & Nick Medina
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble â BuzzFeed â GoodReads â Book Riot â CrimeReads â Ms. Magazine â SheReads â Amazon Editor's Pick â Tor.com â and more!
A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all... Read more
Cup Countdown!
By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
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The 2006 World Cup is around the corner and thirteen-year-old Sam Kerr is pumped! Even though the games are... Read more
Speak for the Dead
By: Amy Tector
Narrated by: Senn Annis
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Itâs a stormy summer day when Ottawa coroner Dr. Cate Spencer is called to the scene of an alleged suicide. Inside a narrow vault in the Dominion Archivesâ nitrate film storage facilityâkept separate from the rest of the collection due to its dangerous combustibilityâofficers pressure her to rule the death a suicide. When parts of the scene... Read more
View audiobookOn the Savage Side
By: Tiffany McDaniel
Narrated by: Catherine Taber
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Six womenâmothers, daughters, sistersâgone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty.
"Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women donât fit a customary victim... Read more
The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
Narrated by: Witi Ihimaera
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the... Read more
View audiobookDammed
By: Brittany Luby
Narrated by: Elle-MĂĄijĂĄ Tailfeathers
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canadaâs hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more
View audiobookMaking Love with the Land
By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of... Read more
Standoff
By: Bruce McIvor
Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canadaâs âreconciliation projectâ has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.Widely known as... Read more
View audiobookNever Name the Dead
By: D.M. Rowell
Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of theft,... Read more
View audiobookMy Good Man
By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 19 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Itâs a rare book that can make the tried-and-true genre of the coming-of-age novel seem novel. There are the standard markers of the heroâs journeyâthe trials, the dark night of the soul, the lesson learned. From Printz Honor author Eric Gansworth comes My Good Man, a literary tour-de-force sure to turn the genre on its head.Brian, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
By: John Joseph Adams & Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Hayden Bishop, Carolyn Kang, Shah...
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today. Todayâs readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for... Read more
View audiobookThe Seven Circles
By: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
Narrated by: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revolutionary self-help guide, including audiobook exclusive exercises, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous... Read more
View audiobookNo Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
By: Julian Aguon
Narrated by: Michael Ignacio
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justiceâfor everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.
In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political... Read more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.
Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is... Read more
Firewater
By: Harold R. Johnson
Narrated by: Kairyn Potts
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcoholâits history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more
View audiobookRain Is Not My Indian Name
By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoffâs best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she... Read more
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