Indigenous Authors

LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionFinalist for the PEN Faulkner AwardIn this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale... Read more

The Journey of Crazy Horse

By: Joseph Marshall

Narrated by: Joseph Marshall

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating... Read more

The Flicker

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Kyla García & Suzy Jackson

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE YEAR AGO, A SOLAR FLARE SCORCHED THE EARTH AND DESTROYED LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

With their parents gone and their supplies running low, grieving stepsiblings Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half-brother in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder—who Millie knows in her gut is still alive, even if Rose isn’t so sure. Along the... Read more

Who We Are

By: Murray Sinclair

Narrated by: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair & Shelagh Rogers

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of the 2024 • An Audible Best Book of 2024 • One of Kobo CA’s Best Biography and Memoir Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and... Read more

A Constellation of Minor Bears

By: Jen Ferguson

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden, Jesse Nobess & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship—and how to move forward with a life that’s not what they’d imagined.          Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing... Read more

Off-White

By: Astrid Roemer

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has... Read more

Inheritance

By: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn & Mi...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Three people – Indigenous, immigrant, and settler – journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom.
 
An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when... Read more

Decolonizing Trauma Work

By: Renee Linklater

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies, indigenous author Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in the Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the center, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue... Read more

Lytton

By: Peter Edwards & Kevin Loring

Narrated by: Kevin Loring & Wayne Ward

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.

“It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire. It took a... Read more

The Ghost of the Rio Grande

By: Don Allen Holbrook

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Paul Michael, Thom Rivera, Cassand...

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

***WINNER! 2024 SOVAS Award for Outstanding Audiobook Narration, Ensemble Cast!*** In this gripping tale, Holbrook masterfully weaves together real historical events with fictional elements, shedding light on the untold story surrounding the U.S. invasion of Mexico and Germany's clandestine manipulation of the southern border during the... Read more

Merciless Saviors

By: H.E. Edgmon

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the Ouroboros series, a contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had... Read more

Thunder 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

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

By: William Berens & A. Irving Hallowell

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Seeing Red

By: Michael John Witgen

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Narrated by: Gail Maurice

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

La historia indígena de Estados Unidos

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Narrated by: Diana Elizabeth Torres

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Una historia de Estados Unidos contada desde la perspectiva de los pueblos indígenas. El libro en el que se basa el documental de HBO Exterminad a todos los salvajes Hoy en día en Estados Unidos hay más de quinientas naciones indígenas reconocidas por el Gobierno federal que comprenden casi tres millones de personas, descendientes de los quince... Read more

A 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

In the Night of Memory

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives... Read more

Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos & Erin Tripp

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.

There are secrets in the land.

As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the... Read more

Aki-wayn-zih

By: Eli Baxter

Narrated by: Eli Baxter

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Members of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life... Read more

Los asesinos de la luna

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Julio Caycedo

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro en que se basa la nueva película de Martin Scorsese, protagonizada por Leonardo DiCaprio y Robert De Niro, entre otros. El autor de Z, la ciudad perdida, David Grann, regresa con un emocionante True Crime que desvela una de las conspiraciones más monstruosas de la historia de Estados Unidos. Best Seller de The New York Times, mejor... Read more

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

By: Carole Lindstrom

Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.

The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change.

It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it... Read more

Avenue of Champions

By: Conor Kerr

Narrated by: Jani Lauzon & Shane Ghostkeeper

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the... Read more