Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
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
Kapaemahu
By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson
Narrated by: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film.
In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return... Read more
The Bear is My Father
By: Bear Heart & Reginah WaterSpirit
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis & Marie Hoffman
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways is considered a love story between Bear Heart and a community that stretches across the globe. This book celebrates the life, teachings and legacy of Marcellus Bear Heart Williams, a Multi-Tribe Spiritual Leader and author of the critically-acclaimed The Wind... Read more
View audiobookThe Fae Keeper
By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite unexpected new enemies within their kingdom.
Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil. Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince... Read more
All Signs Point to Yes
By: Cam Montgomery, g. haron davis & Adrianne White
Narrated by: Erin Ruth Walker, Nancy Wu, Elena Rey, Sophie A...
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A literal star-studded anthology that delivers a love story for every star sign straight from the hearts of thirteen multicultural YA authors.
A haunted Aquarius finds love behind the veil. An ambitious Aries will do anything to stay in the spotlight. A foodie Taurus discovers the best eats in town (with a side of romance). A witchy Cancer... Read more
The Next Sure Thing
By: Richard Wagamese
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly’s Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree’s knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour,... Read more
View audiobookHim Standing
By: Richard Wagamese
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas’s growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask.This mask is to represent the master, but Lucas must find its face in his... Read more
View audiobookRunaway Dreams
By: Richard Wagamese
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where “the ancient ones stand at your shoulder … making you a circle / containing everything.”These are... Read more
View audiobookTainna
By: Norma Dunning
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau & Eric Schweig
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, from young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of... Read more
View audiobookJo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants
By: Dawn Quigley
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Filled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series—written by Dawn Quigley—is filled with the joy of a young Ojibwe girl discovering her very own special shine from the inside out. First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like how to play jump rope, how to... Read more
View audiobookHow to Loiter In a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
Narrated by: Coco Solid
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Like nothing you’ve heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa’s most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It’s a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more
View audiobookThe Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
By: James Bird
Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Benjamin Waterfalls is a troubled kid: he steals as the quickest way to fill the emptiness in his life. Plus, he enjoys the danger, and it makes him feel good to sneak some money into his mom’s purse when rent is due. His Native American mother has tried everything to help Benny find a better path, but when he lands in court in front of an... Read more
View audiobookThe Education of Augie Merasty
By: Joseph Auguste Merasty
Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post in 2015 and voted “One Book/One Province” in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie... Read more
View audiobookAloha Betrayed
By: Noenoe K. Silva
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.
This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K.... Read more
Potlatch as Pedagogy
By: Sara Florence Davidson & Robert Davidson
Narrated by: Sara Florence Davidson & Gary Farmer
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge... Read more
View audiobookThe Truth You’re Told
By: Michael J. Clark
Narrated by: Saffron Henderson
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
People die. Secrets don’t. Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father:... Read more
View audiobookRichard Wagamese Selected
By: Richard Wagamese
Narrated by: Christian Baskous
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writingsRichard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.Following the... Read more
View audiobookThe Road to Eleusis
By: Albert Hofmann
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the... Read more
View audiobookAn Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
By: Kyle T. Mays
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more
Crazy Horse and Custer
By: S. D. Nelson
Narrated by: Courage & Eric G. Dove
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people’s resistance against the white man’s invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last... Read more
View audiobookRez Rules
By: Chief Clarence Louie
Narrated by: Chief Clarence Louie
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.
In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four... Read more
Hunting by Stars
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother & Michelle St. John
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.
Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped... Read more
Iwígara
By: Enrique Salmón
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Tap into thousands of years of plant knowledge
The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and... Read more
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