Native American Heritage

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of... Read more

Native American History For Dummies

By: Dorothy Lippert, PhD & Stephen J. Spignesi
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Call them Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous peoples, or first nations—a vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History For Dummies reveals what is known about their pre-Columbian history and shows how their presence, customs, and... Read more

Fools Crow

By: James Welch
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution to Native American literature." —Wallace... Read more

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

By: Anton Treuer
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

"I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they... Read more

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.

Roxanne... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

By: Robbie Robertson
Narrated by: Piter Marek
Length: 28 minutes

Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of... 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

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 picture book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us... Read more

Native American Wisdom

By: author
Narrated by: Kent Nerburn & Marc Allen
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Joseph, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Black Elk, Ohiyesa, and many others share their insights on Native American ways of living, learning, and dying. There is something archetypal about the philosophy of the original Americans, especially to the sensibilities of modern European Americans. We recognize it as coming from the earth we walk on, from... Read more

Seven Fallen Feathers

Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga
Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their... Read more

Black Elk

The Life of an American Visionary

By: Joe Jackson
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 22 hours 29 minutes

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the worldBlack Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John Neihardt from a series of interviews, it is one of the most widely read and admired works of... Read more

Sacred Instructions

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change

By: Sherri Mitchell
Narrated by: Sherri Mitchell
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

A “profound and inspiring” collection of ancient indigenous wisdom for “anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet” (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma).

A Penobscot Indian draws on the experiences and wisdom of the First Nations to address environmental justice, water protection, generational... Read more

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American

By: Joseph Bruchac
Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League b aseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He’ll forever be remembered by the sports community and by his Native American community, who consider him a hero on par with Crazy Horse.

Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in... Read more

Our History Is the Future

Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

By: Nick Estes
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life"

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water... Read more

Decolonizing Wealth

Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

By: Edgar Villanueva
Narrated by: Larry Herron
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.
 
Though it seems counterintuitive, the... Read more

As Long as Grass Grows

The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty... Read more

Where the Dead Sit Talking

By: Brandon Hobson
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface—that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old... Read more

Fatty Legs

10th anniversary edition

By: Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton & Christy Jordan-Fenton
Narrated by: Lisa Nasson
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

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

One Drum

Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet

By: Richard Wagamese
Narrated by: Christian Baskous
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Fans of Richard Wagamese’s writing will be heartened by the news that the bestselling author left behind a manuscript he’d been working on until shortly before his death in 2017.In One Drum, Wagamese wrote, “I am not a shaman. Nor am I an elder, a pipe carrier, or a celebrated traditionalist. I am merely one who has trudged the same path many of... Read more

Iwígara

American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

By: Enrique Salmón
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

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