Indigenous Authors

Kapaemahu

By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson

Narrated by: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film.

In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return... 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

The Fae Keeper

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite unexpected new enemies within their kingdom.

Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil. Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince... Read more

All Signs Point to Yes

By: Cam Montgomery, g. haron davis & Adrianne White

Narrated by: Erin Ruth Walker, Nancy Wu, Elena Rey, Sophie A...

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A literal star-studded anthology that delivers a love story for every star sign straight from the hearts of thirteen multicultural YA authors.

A haunted Aquarius finds love behind the veil. An ambitious Aries will do anything to stay in the spotlight. A foodie Taurus discovers the best eats in town (with a side of romance). A witchy Cancer... 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

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

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

Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants

By: Dawn Quigley

Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series—written by Dawn Quigley—is filled with the joy of a young Ojibwe girl discovering her very own special shine from the inside out. First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like how to play jump rope, how to... Read more

How to Loiter In a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

Narrated by: Coco Solid

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Like nothing you've heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa's most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It's a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more

The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls

By: James Bird

Narrated by: Christopher Salazar

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Waterfalls is a troubled kid: he steals as the quickest way to fill the emptiness in his life. Plus, he enjoys the danger, and it makes him feel good to sneak some money into his mom’s purse when rent is due. His Native American mother has tried everything to help Benny find a better path, but when he lands in court in front of an... Read more

The Ones That Got Away

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.

A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be... 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

Aloha Betrayed

By: Noenoe K. Silva

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.



This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva... Read more

Potlatch as Pedagogy

By: Sara Florence Davidson & Robert Davidson

Narrated by: Sara Florence Davidson & Gary Farmer

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge... Read more

The Truth You’re Told

By: Michael J. Clark

Narrated by: Saffron Henderson

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

People die. Secrets don’t. Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father:... Read more

Richard Wagamese Selected

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writingsRichard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.Following the... Read more

The 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

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

By: Kyle T. Mays

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more

Crazy Horse and Custer

By: S. D. Nelson

Narrated by: Courage & Eric G. Dove

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people’s resistance against the white man’s invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last... Read more

Rez Rules

By: Chief Clarence Louie

Narrated by: Chief Clarence Louie

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.

In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four... Read more

Hunting by Stars

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother & Michelle St. John

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.

Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped... Read more

Iwígara

By: Enrique Salmón

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Tap into thousands of years of plant knowledge



The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and... Read more

All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

Narrated by: Lincoln McGowan

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022
Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads... Read more