Indigenous Authors

Blood Red Summer

By: Wayne Arthurson

Narrated by: Mike Barrington

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Métis journalist Leo Desroches has just been released from jail. Fortunately for him, he is re-hired at the paper to write a popular column about crime. It’s summer, the city is hot and buzzing with mosquitoes and it’s on track for a record number of homicides.<,/p>Called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the... Read more

Medicine River

By: Thomas King

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native photographer. Somehow, that’s exactly what happens.

Through Will’s... Read more

Johnathan Thurston

By: Johnathan Thurston

Narrated by: James Phelps

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling autobiography of a league legend.
Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2003, to State of Origin... Read more

The Lakota Way - Abridged

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are six stories from Joseph Marshall’s award-winning book, The Lakota Way, read by the author and enriched with musical performances by noted American Indian musicians Keith Bear, Joseph Fire Crow, and Andrew Vasquez.Rich with history and folklore, these traditional Lakota stories about life remain as relevant today as when they were first... Read more

Keeper'n Me

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Deneh'Cho Thompson & Sam Bob

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.

Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds... Read more

Give Me Some Truth

By: Eric Gansworth

Narrated by: Eric Gansworth & Brittany LeBorgne

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR Best Books of the Year * Boston Globe Best Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Chicago Public Library Best Books of the YearA powerful new book from Eric Gansworth, author of If I Ever Get Out of Here, that speaks the truth on race, relationships, and rock from two unforgettable perspectives.Carson Mastick is... Read more

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

By: David M. Buerge

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times—the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific... Read more

Atlas of a Lost World

By: Craig Childs

Narrated by: Craig Childs

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How... Read more

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from... Read more

Seven Fallen Feathers

By: Tanya Talaga

Narrated by: Michaela Washburn

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing
Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize
Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple... Read more

Guardian Angels and Other Monsters

By: Daniel H. Wilson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life.

In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying... Read more

Where the Dead Sit Talking

By: Brandon Hobson

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface—that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old... Read more

Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a... Read more

The Reason You Walk

By: Wab Kinew

Narrated by: Wab Kinew

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist.
          When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans... Read more

My Conversations With Canadians

By: Lee Maracle

Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award
Shortlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 2018-2019 AwardOn her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless... Read more

The Four Sacred Gifts

By: Anita L. Sanchez

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Four Sacred Gifts, visionary international business consultant Anita Sanchez, PhD, reveals the timely prophecy entrusted to her by a global collective of indigenous elders—four guiding gifts that “will allow you to set yourself free to live your most successful life…learn how to forgive, to heal, to unite with all life, and to revitalize... Read more

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family... Read more

Black Elk

By: Joe Jackson

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 22 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews, it is one of the most widely read and admired works of... Read more

Thunder Boy Jr.

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: David Alexie

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son.

Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share... Read more

The Disappearance of Ember Crow

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

Narrated by: Cara Gee

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fast-paced sequel to The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Ashala and her friends face a new danger from the least expected source—one of their own.After a daring raid on Detention Center 3 to rescue their trapped peers, Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals—children with powerful and inexplicable abilities—are once again entrenched... Read more

Dream Wheels

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his subsequent bitter depression, but without success. Meanwhile, in a distant city, a troubled young kid named... Read more

Doty Meets Coyote

By: Thomas Doty

Narrated by: Thomas Doty

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Doty Meets Coyote is an audio tapestry of traditional and original Native American stories from the American West told by master storyteller Thomas Doty.It is Thomas Doty’s work as a storyteller to not only perpetuate the Old Time myths with integrity but to add new stories to the collective basket of folklore, just as tellers before him have... Read more

“I Am a Man”

By: Joe Starita

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to Oklahoma—known then as Indian Territory—in what became the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. “I Am a Man” chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their... Read more

Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

By: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Narrated by: Agnes Baker Pilgrim

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, was the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie traveled tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless,... Read more