Indigenous Authors

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

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

Finals Fever

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 46 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.
  
Sam Kerr has only been playing soccer for a few months and now her team is playing in the finals! She can’t... Read more

We 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

Tapwe 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

A Broken Blade

By: Melissa Blair

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

My body is made of scars,some were done to me,but most I did to myself.Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow.She tracks her target into the magical lands of the... Read more

The Stone Child

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 40 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

The 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

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

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

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 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

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

Runaway 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

Him 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

Tainna

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

Jo 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

How 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

Reclaiming Two-Spirits

By: Gregory Smithers

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native... Read more