Proudly Indigenous

Race to the Sun

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Kinsale Hueston
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Best-selling author Rick Riordan welcomes indigenous fantasy writer Rebecca Roanhorse to his imprint with this thrilling adventure about a Navajo girl who discovers she's a monsterslayer.

Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns... Read more

Thunder Boy Jr.

By: Sherman Alexie
Narrated by: David Alexie
Length: 6 minutes

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son.

Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share... Read more

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Narrated by: Kenny Ramos & DeLanna Studi
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... Read more

Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants

Jo Jo: Book #2

By: Dawn Quigley
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 59 minutes

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

The Great Bear

The Misewa Saga, Book Two

The Misewa Saga: Book #2

By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

“I read the first book in this series, The Barren Ground, and really enjoyed it. I listened to this book and, I have to say, this is an excellent series so far. The reading is so good, I want to go back and listen to the first one! Read more

Kapaemahu

By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson
Narrated by: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Length: 23 minutes

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

The Barren Grounds

The Misewa Saga, Book One

The Misewa Saga: Book #1

By: David A. Robertson
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their... Read more

The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls

By: James Bird
Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Benjamin Waterfalls is a troubled kid: he steals as the quickest way to fill the emptiness in his life. Plus, he enjoys the danger, and it makes him feel good to sneak some money into his mom’s purse when rent is due. His Native American mother has tried everything to help Benny find a better path, but when he lands in court in front of an... Read more

Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend

Jo Jo: Book #1

By: Dawn Quigley
Narrated by: Jennifer Bobiwash
Length: 52 minutes

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

Black Sun

Between Earth and Sky: Book #1

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

“Epic fantasy story, in which neopronouns xe and the pronoun they are used. A very captivating story that won't let you go. Read more

If I Ever Get Out of Here

By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of TANTALIZE and RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used... Read more

Apple

(Skin to the Core)

By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... Read more

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

A Memoir

By: Sherman Alexie
Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family... Read more

Rez Rules

My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

By: Chief Clarence Louie
Narrated by: Chief Clarence Louie
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.

In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four... Read more

Unreconciled

Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente
Narrated by: Jesse Wente
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

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

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King
Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from... Read more

The Last Pow-Wow

By: That Native Thomas & Steven Paul Judd
Narrated by: That Native Thomas
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Sparkling with magical realism, this book follows nine seemingly separate stories that dovetail in an unexpected and profound climax. It begins with a mysterious pow-wow to be held inside a colossal tipi, 200 feet tall and three miles wide, which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town. Advertising fliers blanket the area and all of... Read more

Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel
Narrated by: Jani Lauzon, Tyrone Savage & Brefny Caribou
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family’s ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.

1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed... Read more

Forever Birchwood

A Novel

By: Danielle Daniel
Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle DanielAdventurous, trail-blazing Wolf lives in a northern mining town and spends her days exploring the mountains and wilderness with her three best friends Penny, Ann and Brandi. The girls’ secret refuge is their tree-house hideaway, Birchwood, Wolf’s favourite place on... Read more

The Whale Child

By: Keith Egawa & Chenoa Egawa
Narrated by: Chenoa Egawa & Keith Egawa
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

An inspiring middle-grade chapter book that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters and authors.

"You have family on land as you do in the sea. . . being a caretaker of the earth begins with taking care of the water that all life depends on."

Shiny is a whale child. One... Read more