Indigenous Authors

Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend

By: Dawn Quigley

Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

American Indian Youth Literature Award: Middle Grade Honor Book! Hello/Boozhoo—meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is.Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a... Read more

Healer of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Young’s powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster—and comes to realize he’s a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he’s in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service.... Read more

A Stranger At Home

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl.”... Read more

Fatty Legs

By: Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton & Christy Jordan...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir’s 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections... Read more

Not My Girl

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair... Read more

Swift Fox All Along

By: Rebecca Thomas

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies... Read more

When I Was Eight

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair and force her to do menial chores,... Read more

The Narrows of Fear (Wawawikoscikanik)

By: Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Narrated by: Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a range of characters, both male and female, though the women, for the most part, are the... Read more

Sanaaq

By: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in... Read more

The Case of Windy Lake

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mighty Muskrats won’t let a mystery go unsolved!Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting... Read more

The Case of the Missing Auntie

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bright lights of the big city, the Mighty Muskrats search for an auntie lost long ago. The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa’s little sister, who was scooped up by the government and adopted out to strangers without her parents’ permission many years ago,... Read more

We Are Water Protectors

By: Carole Lindstrom

Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal
New York Times Bestseller

This program is read by the author.

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical audiobook written by Carole Lindstrom.

Water is the first... Read more

Sisters of the Neversea

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Five starred reviews! In this beautifully reimagined story by NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek), Native American Lily and English Wendy embark on a high-flying journey of magic, adventure, and courage to a fairy-tale island known as Neverland…Lily and Wendy have been best friends... Read more

Peacemaker

By: Joseph Bruchac

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Twelve-year-old Okwaho’s life has suddenly changed. While out hunting with his best friend, his friend is kidnapped by marauders from a... Read more

Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for... Read more

My Heart Fills With Happiness / sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci

By: Monique Gray Smith

Narrated by: Heather Gould & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures." — Publishers Weekly, starred review “Will leave the youngest readers gladly imagining what fills their own hearts with joy.”—The New York Times The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the... Read more

A Knock on the Door

By: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Narrated by: Michelle St. John

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation... Read more

Structures of Indifference

By: Mary Jane Logan McCallum & Adele Perry

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Structures of Indifferenceexamines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city,... Read more

Tell Me Why

By: Archie Roach

Narrated by: Archie Roach

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 ABIA Audiobook of the Year

A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.

Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach – stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader – but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who... Read more

Indigenomics

By: Carol Anne Hilton

Narrated by: Denise Halfyard

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Igniting the $100 billion Indigenous economyIt is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around... Read more

Life in the City of Dirty Water

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*





NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the... Read more

The Stone Collection

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Narrated by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and preciousness of life. —Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm In these 14 unique stories, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm takes on complex and dangerous emotions,... Read more

The Case of the Burgled Bundle

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mighty Muskrats, four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation, are back for another adventure!The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the... Read more