Indigenous Voices

Wisdom Keeper

One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People

By: Ilarion Merculieff
Narrated by: Darren Roebuck
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs. He recounts his developing consciousness and... Read more

Berry Song

By: Michaela Goade
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
Length: 14 minutes

A Caldecott Honor Book!

An Indie Bestseller!

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders.

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from... Read more

Sweetest Kulu

By: Celina Kalluk
Narrated by: Celina Kalluk
Length: TBA

Winner of a Wordcraft Circle Award Named Best Bedtime Book Huffington Post Selected as Top Summer Read for the TD Summer Reading Club "Dream a little, Kulu, this world now sings a most beautiful song of you." This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by... Read more

The Seed Keeper

A Novel

By: Diane Wilson
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“The Seed Keeper shimmers like the horizon in the summer heat—depending on how you look at it, it is a stunning historical novel, a paean to the land and the plants that people it, a prayer to Dakota women wading through generational trauma. It is all of these things, and so much more. Wilson deftly weaves together multiple voices to bring the... Read more

Swift Fox All Along

By: Rebecca Thomas
Narrated by: Lisa Nasson
Length: 11 minutes

What does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies... Read more

The Case of the Missing Auntie

The Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series: Book #2

By: Michael Hutchinson
Narrated by: Kaniehtiio Horn
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

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

Indigenous Ingenuity

A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge

By: Deidre Havrelock & Edward Kay
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Celebrate Indigenous thinkers and inventions with this beautifully designed, award-winning interactive nonfiction book—perfect for fans of Braiding Sweetgrass.  Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would... Read more

Wandering Stars

A novel

By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young & Charley Flyte
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“Wandering Stars left me breathless. Relentless in its truth and pain, this family saga takes us from the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 through the years of forced assimilation in government-run Indian schools to present-day Oakland after a shooting at a pow-wow. Told through the lens of one family, this is a painful history lesson of attempted... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp
Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand
Length: 11 minutes

★ "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

A Council of Dolls

A Novel

By: Mona Susan Power
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the... Read more

Living Resistance

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.



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In the Night of Memory

A Novel

By: Linda LeGarde Grover
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives... Read more

The Truth According to Ember

By: Danica Nava
Narrated by: Siena East
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“STOP I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! This book was a TRUE ROM COM!!! Ember was such a complex fmc and while some of her actions were frustrating, she was so funny, endearing, and hard working. I was rooting for her from page 1. While this book overall was hilarious, I loved the emotional undertone when this book highlighted family, especially... Read more

The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus & Jordan Waunch
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

“A family desperately looking for their youngest child who went missing at age four. A woman realizing that her parents aren't quite who they say they are. A BEAUTIFUL story of family and the power of love and hope. Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter
Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo Cardinal, Dakota Ray Hebert, Bernard Starlight, Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers, Wesley French, Jenny Pudavick, Lisa Cromarty, Monique Mojica, Alison Deon, Jacob MacInnis, Yolanda Bonnell, Brefny Caribou & Kiawentiio
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more

My Powerful Hair

By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 10 minutes

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

The Sea-Ringed World

Sacred Stories of the Americas

By: Maria Garcia Esperon
Narrated by: David Bowles
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The... Read more

We Are Water Protectors

(Caldecott Medal Winner)

By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 10 minutes

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

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

Poems

By: Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... Read more

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Seedbank

By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

“This audiobook is so wonderful as it reads each poem in all three languages: the translation into English, as well as the original Zoque and Spanish. Hearing the Zoque read aloud is incredibly powerful to me as a reader and knowledge-seeker, because it expanded my understanding of the language and actively preserves its sounds and rhythms. I was... Read more