Indigenous Authors

Tainna

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau & Eric Schweig

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, from young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of... 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

The 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

The 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. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for... Read more

The Education of Augie Merasty

By: Joseph Auguste Merasty

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post in 2015 and voted “One Book/One Province” in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie... Read more

Indian Shoes

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved chapter book by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith about the love and adventures shared by a Cherokee-Seminole boy and his Grampa! A perfect pick for new readers.What do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or hightops with bright orange shoelaces?Ray Halfmoon prefers hightops, but... Read more

Rain 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 Berghoff’s best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she... Read more

The Hatak Witches

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. They find no fingerprints, no footprints, and no obvious means to enter the locked building.



Monique discovers that a portion of an... Read more

Him Standing

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas’s growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask.This mask is to represent the master, but Lucas must find its face in his... Read more

Runaway Dreams

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where “the ancient ones stand at your shoulder … making you a circle / containing everything.”These are... Read more

The Next Sure Thing

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly’s Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree’s knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour,... Read more

Spíləxm

By: Nicola I. Campbell

Narrated by: Nicola I. Campbell

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m... Read more

The Bear is My Father

By: Bear Heart & Reginah WaterSpirit

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis & Marie Hoffman

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways is considered a love story between Bear Heart and a community that stretches across the globe. This book celebrates the life, teachings and legacy of Marcellus Bear Heart Williams, a Multi-Tribe Spiritual Leader and author of the critically-acclaimed The Wind... Read more

A Broken Blade

By: Melissa Blair

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

My body is made of scars,some were done to me,but most I did to myself.Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow.She tracks her target into the magical lands of the... Read more

Classified

By: Traci Sorell

Narrated by: DeLanna Studi, Traci Sorell & John Ross

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. This story traces her journey from being the only girl in a high-school math class to becoming a teacher to pursuing an engineering degree, joining the top-secret Skunk Works division of Lockheed, and being a mentor for Native... Read more

Dawn Raid

By: Pauline Vaeluaga Smith

Narrated by: Tameka Sowman Vahatau

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sofia is like most twelve-year-old girls in New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? WHY does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starts talking about protests, overstayers, and injustices... Read more

Fry Bread

By: Kevin Noble Maillard

Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... Read more

Apple

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... Read more

Diamond in the Rough

By: Isobella Crowley, Michael Anderle & Ell Leigh C...

Narrated by: Emma Lysy

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret world is being hidden by a vampire hundreds of years old—and her human frat-boy apprentice. He might shape up to be an asset if she doesn't kill him first. Between setting up the office and hiring new preternatural staff, with some surprising...talents, Taylor tasks Remy with a new case. She assumes he will stick to her instructions,... Read more

Offerings

By: Michael ByungJu Kim

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his... Read more

The Sea-Ringed World

By: Maria Garcia Esperon

Narrated by: David Bowles

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The... Read more

On the Savage Side

By: Tiffany McDaniel

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone 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 don’t fit a customary victim... Read more

Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Ana Rodriguez & Gary Tiedemann

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the other gods grow tired in their attempt to create humankind, only one does not give up: the Feathered Serpent. He embarks on a dangerous journey full of fearsome foes and harsh elements, facing each trial with wisdom, bravery, and resourcefulness before confronting his final challenge at Mictlan, the underworld. In the spirit of Duncan... Read more

Cuentos sagrados de América

By: Maria Garcia Esperon

Narrated by: Erika Robledo

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Quince mil años antes de que los Europeos pisarán las Américas, la gente ya se había propagado de punta a punta y de costa a costa. Como todos los humanos, estos Nativos Americanos buscaban comprender su lugar en el universo, la naturaleza de su relación con lo divino, y el origen del mundo en el que habían emergido sus antepasados. Las... Read more