Indigenous Authors

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

My 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

Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

Narrated by: Elva Guerra & Nick Medina

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ GoodReads ∙ Book Riot ∙ CrimeReads ∙ Ms. Magazine ∙ SheReads ∙ Amazon Editor's Pick ∙ Tor.com ∙ and more!

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all... Read more

Cup Countdown!

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
The 2006 World Cup is around the corner and thirteen-year-old Sam Kerr is pumped! Even though the games are... Read more

Speak for the Dead

By: Amy Tector

Narrated by: Senn Annis

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a stormy summer day when Ottawa coroner Dr. Cate Spencer is called to the scene of an alleged suicide. Inside a narrow vault in the Dominion Archives’ nitrate film storage facility—kept separate from the rest of the collection due to its dangerous combustibility—officers pressure her to rule the death a suicide. When parts of the scene... 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

Dammed

By: Brittany Luby

Narrated by: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more

Making Love with the Land

By: Joshua Whitehead

Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world



In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of... Read more

Standoff

By: Bruce McIvor

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.Widely known as... Read more

Becoming 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

The 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

My 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

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

By: Julian Aguon

Narrated by: Michael Ignacio

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.



In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political... Read more

The 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

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.

Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is... Read more

Firewater

By: Harold R. Johnson

Narrated by: Kairyn Potts

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

A National Crime

By: John S. Milloy

Narrated by: Wesley French

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) “[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent... Read more

Rain Is Not My Indian Name

By: Cynthia Leitich 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

Indian Shoes

By: Cynthia Leitich 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

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

Man Made Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

Narrated by: DeLanna Studi & Lane Factor

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