Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
Warrior Princesses Strike Back
By: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White
Narrated by: Sarah Eagle Heart & Emma Eagle Heart-White
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery, Warrior Princesses Strike Back focuses how Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary truth and healing.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in... Read more
Searching for Savanna
By: Mona Gable
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government... Read more
View audiobookAntelope Woman
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.“Audacious and surprising. . . . One of America’s most... Read more
View audiobookMy Powerful Hair
By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Our ancestors say our hair is our memories, our source of strength and power, a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hair—she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn’t have long hair—hers was taken from her. But one young girl can’t wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth,... Read more
View audiobookFuneral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her... Read more
On the Savage Side
By: Tiffany McDaniel
Narrated by: Catherine Taber
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty.
"Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim... Read more
The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
Narrated by: Witi Ihimaera
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Kin
By: Patty Krawec
Narrated by: Patty Krawec
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home."
Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and... Read more
Never Name the Dead
By: D.M. Rowell
Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of theft,... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
By: John Joseph Adams & Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Hayden Bishop, Carolyn Kang, Shah...
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for... Read more
View audiobookMy Good Man
By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 19 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s a rare book that can make the tried-and-true genre of the coming-of-age novel seem novel. There are the standard markers of the hero’s journey—the trials, the dark night of the soul, the lesson learned. From Printz Honor author Eric Gansworth comes My Good Man, a literary tour-de-force sure to turn the genre on its head.Brian, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Seven Circles
By: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
Narrated by: Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revolutionary self-help guide, including audiobook exclusive exercises, two beloved Native American wellness activists offer wisdom for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing rooted in Indigenous ancestral knowledge.When wellness teachers and husband-wife duo Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins founded their Indigenous... Read more
View audiobookRain Is Not My Indian Name
By: Cynthia L. Smith
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. It's been six months since Cassidy Rain Berghoff’s best friend, Galen, died, and up until now she... Read more
View audiobookIndian Shoes
By: Cynthia L. Smith
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The beloved chapter book by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith about the love and adventures shared by a Cherokee-Seminole boy and his Grampa! A perfect pick for new readers.What do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or hightops with bright orange shoelaces?Ray Halfmoon prefers hightops, but... Read more
View audiobookMan Made Monsters
By: Andrea L. Rogers
Narrated by: Lane Factor & DeLanna Studi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.
Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance.
Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection—from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the... Read more
She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller
By: Traci Sorell & Chelsea Clinton
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau & Chelsea Clinton
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series, adapted for audio, about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Wilma Mankiller!
The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her... Read more
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
By: Tiffany Midge
Narrated by: Charlotte Flyte
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it... Read more
View audiobookWe Are the Middle of Forever
By: Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent... Read more
View audiobookTapwe and the Magic Hat
By: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Narrated by: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations."
—Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With HappinessFrom beloved Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie comes a chapter book inspired by oral histories and traditions. On a prairie reserve, Tâpwê receives a mysterious gift... Read more
The Stone Child
By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help — from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and... Read more
Poukahangatus
By: Tayi Tibble
Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.
Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in... Read more
The Hatak Witches
By: Devon A. Mihesuah
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. They find no fingerprints, no footprints, and no obvious means to enter the locked building.
Monique discovers that a portion of an... Read more
Spíləxm
By: Nicola I. Campbell
Narrated by: Nicola I. Campbell
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m... Read more
View audiobookThe Dawnhounds
By: Sascha Stronach
Narrated by: Anna Coddington
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.
The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a... Read more
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