Indigenous Authors

An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

Narrated by: Joy Harjo

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo... Read more

Halfbreed

By: Maria Campbell

Narrated by: Maria Campbell

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.

An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman--a... Read more

Islands of Decolonial Love

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Narrated by: Tantoo Cardinal

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres,... Read more

Ghosts

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined.... Read more

Monsters

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a mysterious organization, and long-held secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. Can Cole learn the truth... Read more

Strangers

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cole Harper is compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and re-emerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest... Read more

Cherokee America

By: Margaret Verble

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble comes a multilayered, wholly original epic of the American frontier.A baby, a Black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a neighbor have all gone missing in the same corner of the Cherokee Nation West. Cherokee America Singer, known as Check, is none too pleased with these developments. As a wealthy... Read more

I Can Make This Promise

By: Christine Day

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In her debut middle grade novel—inspired by her family’s history—Christine Day tells the story of a girl who uncovers her family’s secrets—and finds her own Native American identity.All her life, Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious she might be about her Native American heritage, Edie is sure her... Read more

Thunder Through My Veins

By: Gregory Scofield

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Gregory Scofield's Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man's journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.

Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only... Read more

Native 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

Legacy

By: Suzanne Methot

Narrated by: Suzanne Methot

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne... Read more

In Search of April Raintree

By: Beatrice Mosionier

Narrated by: Michaela Washburn

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they are separated, and each put into different foster homes. Yet over the years, the bond between them grows. As they each make their way in a society that is, at times, indifferent, hostile, and violent, one embraces her Métis identity, while the other... Read more

For Joshua

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Craig Lauzon

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The heartfelt memoir from one of Canada's most beloved writers.

Staring the modern world in the eye, Richard Wagamese confronts its snares and perils. He sees people coveting without knowing why, looking for roots without understanding what constitutes home, searching for acceptance without extending reciprocal respect, and longing for love... Read more

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition)

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and... Read more

Life Among the Qallunaat

By: Mini Aodla Freeman

Narrated by: Taqralik Partridge

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an... Read more

Ragged Company

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Monique Mojica, J.D. Nicholsen, Benjamin Blais ...

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the... Read more

Our History Is the Future

By: Nick Estes

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life"



In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water... Read more

The Wind Is My Mother

By: Bear Heart

Narrated by: Larry Winters

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Read more

As Long as Grass Grows

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty... Read more

Embers

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on—and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits... 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

One Native Life

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled—from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism—in reclaiming his identity. It’s about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his fifty-two years on Earth.Whether he’s writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock, or... Read more

One Story, One Song

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Native Life. “In quiet tones and luminous language,” wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, “Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in... Read more

Fire Song

By: Adam Garnet Jones

Narrated by: Dillan Meighan Chiblow

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really... Read more