Indigenous Authors

We 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

The 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

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

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

Rez 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

Sisters of the Neversea

By: Cynthia Leitich 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

A 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

Structures 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

White 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

Healer 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

Jo 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

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

By: Anita Heiss

Narrated by: Tamala Shelton

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

‘There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is one of those books – a novel that turns Australia’s long-mythologised settler history into a raw and resilient heartsong.' – Guardian

***WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE***
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Indigenomics

By: Carol Anne Hilton

Narrated by: Denise Halfyard

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Igniting the $100 billion Indigenous economyIt is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around... Read more

My Heart Fills With Happiness / sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci

By: Monique Gray Smith

Narrated by: Heather Gould & Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures." — Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp

Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

★ "Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for... Read more

The Case of Windy Lake

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mighty Muskrats won’t let a mystery go unsolved!Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting... Read more

The Case of the Missing Auntie

By: Michael Hutchinson

Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bright lights of the big city, the Mighty Muskrats search for an auntie lost long ago. The Mighty Muskrats are off to the city to have fun at the Exhibition Fair. But when Chickadee learns about Grandpa’s little sister, who was scooped up by the government and adopted out to strangers without her parents’ permission many years ago,... Read more

The Narrows of Fear (Wawawikoscikanik)

By: Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Narrated by: Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of stories centred on a range of characters, both male and female, though the women, for the most part, are the... Read more

Sanaaq

By: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in... Read more

Peacemaker

By: Joseph Bruchac

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Twelve-year-old Okwaho’s life has suddenly changed. While out hunting with his best friend, his friend is kidnapped by marauders from a... Read more

The Immortal Boy

By: Francisco Montaña Ibáñez

Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz & Ana Daniela Osorio

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus vidas se entrelazan jamás te dejará. Read more

Dawn Raid

By: Pauline Vaeluaga Smith

Narrated by: Tameka Sowman Vahatau

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sofia is like most twelve-year-old girls in New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? WHY does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starts talking about protests, overstayers, and injustices... Read more

Fatty Legs

By: Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton & Christy Jordan...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir’s 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections... Read more

Not My Girl

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak...

Narrated by: Lisa Nasson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair... Read more