Indigenous Authors

The Immortal Boy

By: Francisco Montaña Ibáñez

Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz & Ana Daniela Osorio

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus vidas se entrelazan jamás te dejará. Read more

The Brave

By: James Bird

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Collin can't help himself―he has a unique condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the... Read more

A Mind Spread out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ""a mind spread out on the ground."" In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal... Read more

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

By: Dr. Anton Treuer

Narrated by: Dr. Anton Treuer

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young listeners alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?," "What's it like for... Read more

The Flip Out

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 38 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.
 
Sam Kerr is an Aussie rules football fan through and through. But when she’s excluded from her team she doesn’t... Read more

A New Knight

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2024 R.E.A.L. Awards
Shortlisted for the 2024 Yabba Awards, Fiction for Younger Readers

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.
 
After... Read more

Sports Day

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 43 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.
 
It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports... Read more

Finals Fever

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 46 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.
  
Sam Kerr has only been playing soccer for a few months and now her team is playing in the finals! She can’t... Read more

Never 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

My Good Man

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 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 hero’s journey—the 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

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

By: Tiffany Midge

Narrated by: Charlotte Flyte

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it... Read more

Tapwe and the Magic Hat

By: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Narrated by: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations."
—Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With HappinessFrom beloved Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie comes a chapter book inspired by oral histories and traditions. On a prairie reserve, Tâpwê receives a mysterious gift... Read more

Heroes of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An unmissable companion to Healer of the Water Monster, which won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award, this novel by Navajo author Brian Young tells the story of two contemporary young Navajo heroes—and one water monster—who must learn to work together to save their present world from the lasting hurts of their... Read more

We Are the Middle of Forever

By: Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent... Read more

Man Made Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

Narrated by: Lane Factor & DeLanna Studi

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.

Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance.

Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection—from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the... Read more

No 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 justice—for 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

Swim Home to the Vanished

By: Brendan Shay Basham

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction “Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.”—Tommy Orange, author of There, ThereAfter the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young... Read more

Lei and the Fire Goddess

By: Malia Maunakea

Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lei and the Fire Goddess blends preteen angst and beloved Hawaiian moʻolelo in a way that hasn't been done before." —Auliʻi Cravalho, actress and voice of Disney's Princess Moana

Curses aren't real.

At least, that's what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about sacred... Read more

A National Crime

By: John S. Milloy

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) “[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent... Read more

Searching for Savanna

By: Mona Gable

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (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

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 book—perfect 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

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its 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

Making 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

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and... Read more