Indigenous Authors

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

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This queer YA reimagining of The Secret Garden subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and... 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

It Stops Here

By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson

Narrated by: Rueben George

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an... Read more

Swim Home to the Vanished

By: Brendan Shay Basham

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction “Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.”—Tommy Orange, author of There, ThereAfter the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young... Read more

The Half-White Album

By: Cynthia J. Sylvester

Narrated by: Cynthia Sylvester

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give listeners a poignant though fractured view of her characters' lives, their loves, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band,... Read more

No Place Like Home

By: James Bird

Narrated by: Calvin Joyal

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new... Read more

Ira Hayes

By: Tom Holm

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor Corbett

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes—a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero.

IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along... Read more

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... Read more

A Game of Gods

By: Scarlett St. Clair

Narrated by: Tyler Donne

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in multiple POVs, A Game of Gods is the final installment in the Hades Saga by USA Today bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair.



Hades, God of the Dead, has finally made Persephone his in every way possible. With their wedding on the horizon, the couple should be ecstatic. But Demeter is wreaking havoc on their bliss by battering the whole of... Read more

Doom Guy

By: John Romero

Narrated by: John Romero

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John RomeroDoom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history. Credited with the invention of the... Read more

My Journey to the World Cup

By: Sam Kerr

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup.

Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before... Read more

Thinning Blood

By: Leah Myers

Narrated by: Kimberly Woods

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions



Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her... Read more

A Calm and Normal Heart

By: Chelsea T. Hicks

Narrated by: Chelsea T. Hicks

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Oklahoma to California, the heroes of A Calm & Normal Heart are modern-day adventurers—seeking out new places to call their own inside a nation to which they do not entirely belong. A member of the Osage tribe, author Chelsea T. Hicks's stories are compelled by an overlooked diaspora happening inside America itself: that of young Native... Read more

Lei and the Fire Goddess

By: Malia Maunakea

Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lei and the Fire Goddess blends preteen angst and beloved Hawaiian moʻolelo in a way that hasn't been done before." —Auliʻi Cravalho, actress and voice of Disney's Princess Moana

Curses aren't real.

At least, that's what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about sacred... Read more

Heroes of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An unmissable companion to Healer of the Water Monster, which won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award, this novel by Navajo author Brian Young tells the story of two contemporary young Navajo heroes—and one water monster—who must learn to work together to save their present world from the lasting hurts of their... Read more

Berry Song

By: Michaela Goade

Narrated by: Erin Tripp

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A Caldecott Honor Book!

An Indie Bestseller!

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders.

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from... Read more

Grandma's Tipi

By: S. D. Nelson

Narrated by: Jashaun St. John

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for... Read more

Indigenous Ingenuity

By: Deidre Havrelock & Edward Kay

Narrated by: Erin Tripp

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrate Indigenous thinkers and inventions with this beautifully designed, award-winning interactive nonfiction book—perfect for fans of Braiding Sweetgrass.  Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces... Read more