Indigenous Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Indigenous descent.
All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
Narrated by: Lincoln McGowan
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022
Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads... Read more
Once Upon a Seaside Murder
By: Maggie Blackburn
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
There's no place like home for the holidays—even if home is sleepy beachside Brigid's Island, North Carolina. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers—and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late... Read more
View audiobookUnreconciled
By: Jesse Wente
Narrated by: Jesse Wente
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction
SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book Award
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to... Read more
Wrist
By: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, MFA
Narrated by: Wesley French & Simon Lee Phillips
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness.Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must... Read more
View audiobookLiving Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories
By: Dan SaSuWeh Jones
Narrated by: Wes Studi & DeLanna Studi
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from abreadth American Indian nations.Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood.Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but... Read more
View audiobookIn My Own Moccasins
By: Helen Knott
Narrated by: Helen Knott
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and... Read more
View audiobookLife in the City of Dirty Water
By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the... Read more
The Beginning and End of Rape
By: Sarah Deer
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it.
The Beginning... Read more
The Drover's Wife
By: Leah Purcell
Narrated by: Leah Purcell
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, live Molly Johnson and her children. Husband Joe is away droving, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly's children are her world, and life is hard with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection - but it can be harder when Joe's... Read more
View audiobookShe Is Not Your Rehab
By: Matt Brown
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. As the creator of My Fathers Barbers, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Zealand men to break free from the cycle of abuse — and those men have in turn inspired Matt and his wife,... Read more
View audiobookA Two-Spirit Journey
By: Ma-Nee Chacaby
Narrated by: Marsha Knight
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... Read more
View audiobookThe Case of the Burgled Bundle
By: Michael Hutchinson
Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mighty Muskrats, four cousins from the Windy Lake First Nation, are back for another adventure!The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the... Read more
View audiobookEven As We Breathe
By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in... Read more
View audiobookWe Are Water Protectors
By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal
New York Times Bestseller
This program is read by the author.
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical audiobook written by Carole Lindstrom.
Water is the first... Read more
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage
By: Darnella Davis
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in... Read more
View audiobookThe Stone Collection
By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Narrated by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and preciousness of life. —Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm In these 14 unique stories, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm takes on complex and dangerous emotions,... Read more
View audiobookRez Dogs
By: Joseph Bruchac
Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic.
Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation—she’s there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s... Read more
From the Ashes
By: Jesse Thistle
Narrated by: Jesse Thistle
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is “an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and freedom” (Amanda Lindhout, bestselling coauthor of A House in... Read more
View audiobookSisters of the Neversea
By: Cynthia L. Smith
Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Five starred reviews! In this beautifully reimagined story by NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek), Native American Lily and English Wendy embark on a high-flying journey of magic, adventure, and courage to a fairy-tale island known as Neverland…Lily and Wendy have been best friends... Read more
View audiobookA Knock on the Door
By: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation... Read more
View audiobookStructures of Indifference
By: Mary Jane Logan McCallum & Adele Perry
Narrated by: Wesley French
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Structures of Indifferenceexamines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city,... Read more
View audiobookWhite Magic
By: Elissa Washuta
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt... Read more
View audiobookJo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend
By: Dawn Quigley
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
American Indian Youth Literature Award: Middle Grade Honor Book! Hello/Boozhoo—meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is.Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a... Read more
View audiobookHealer of the Water Monster
By: Brian Young
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Brian Young’s powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster—and comes to realize he’s a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he’s in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service.... Read more
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