Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
By: Lili‘uokalani
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.
Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... Read more
A 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 king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on... Read more
View audiobookA Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo ...
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.
Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more
The Witch King
By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021
To save a fae kingdom, a trans witch must face his traumatic past and the royal fiancé he left behind.
In Asalin, fae rule and witches like Wyatt Croft…don’t. Wyatt’s betrothal to fae prince Emyr North was supposed to change that. But when Wyatt lost control of his magic one devastating night, he... Read more
VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
""Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy."" ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more
View audiobookNative American DNA
By: Kim TallBear
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful—and problematic—scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic... Read more
View audiobookFuture Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable BookLouise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic eventThe world as we know it is ending.... Read more
View audiobookThunder Song
By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more
View audiobookThe Road to Eleusis
By: Albert Hofmann
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the... Read more
View audiobookFry 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
View audiobookThe Beginning and End of Rape
By: Sarah Deer
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it.
The Beginning... Read more
Earth Keeper
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
""Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose."" — EsquireA magnificent testament to the earth, from... Read more
View audiobookIt Stops Here
By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson
Narrated by: Rueben George
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD
A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.
It Stops Here is the profound story of... Read more
Sand Talk
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read more
View audiobookThe Babysitter Lives
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc & Stephen Graham Jones
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It’s perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride…especially when you’re almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.” —Stephen King
Only on Audio! A... Read more
No Place Like Home
By: James Bird
Narrated by: Calvin Joyal
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new... Read more
View audiobookCalling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity.
Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands... Read more
Moon of the Turning Leaves
By: Waubgeshig Rice
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by... Read more
View audiobookWoman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re... Read more
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more
Elatsoe
By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Kinsale Hueston
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly every day, like the ability to make an orb of... Read more
View audiobookEmpire of Wild
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!”—Margaret Atwood, From Instagram
“Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.”—Tommy... Read more
Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
"A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul... Read more
Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep... Read more
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