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The Mighty Red

A Novel

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“A fantastic read! Set over the course of 2008 and 2009, The Mighty Red is a novel rich with characters and sense of place. At its core, it is a book about choices and the repercussions of those choices over time. I'll go out on a limb and say this is Erdrich's best novel yet! The narrator was pitch perfect, too. Read more

Where They Last Saw Her

A Novel

By: Marcie R. Rendon
Narrated by: Erin Tripp & Marcie R. Rendon
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

“Marcie Rendon does not disappoint with this stand alone thriller. When multiple Native women go missing, Quill takes it upon herself to find them -- but at what cost?! An important look at missing and murdered Indigenous peoples. Highly recommend this and all of Rendon's work. Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“Don’t let the size of this book fool you! It’s brimming with nuggets of wisdom regarding our relationship to the natural world and pleas for reciprocity in all aspects of living. A wonderful reference for a more equitable, meaningful existence. Read more

Where Wolves Don't Die

By: Anton Treuer
Narrated by: Anton Treuer
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who... Read more

The Indian Card

Who Gets to Be Native in America

By: Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Narrated by: Amy Hall
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz offers an in-depth and personal look at the long history of colonialism's effects on Native identity. Through interviews and her own experiences, she presents a rich tapestry of rules surrounding Tribal membership, the concept of blood quantum, and the often complex emotions involved in self-identity. This is a rich... Read more

Sheine Lende

A Prequel to Elatsoe

By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Kinsale Drake
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood—and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back.

Then Shane’s... 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

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

A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids

A Novel

By: Linda LeGarde Grover
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know—and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be... Read more

Thunder Song

Essays

By: Sasha LaPointe
Narrated by: Sasha LaPointe
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taq?š?blu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and... Read more

Mirrored Heavens

Between Earth and Sky: Book #3

By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Shyla Lefner, Nicole Lewis, Kairyn Potts & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

“All of the best things have to end, I guess, but it still hurts like nothing else. This poetically written ending was almost Homeric in the way it maintained an epic and suspenseful sense of awe and wonder— this dynamic series did not disappoint, but this finale put me through the WRINGER! Read more

The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

“Ned Blackhawk joins the growing (and overdue) pantheon of historians looking to restore Indigenous history to the story of “America.” Ambitiously tackling the arc commonly taught (and normalized) in US schools, Blackhawk swiftly but comprehensively charts a course from Spanish colonization to the 20th century, covering 500 years in fewer than... Read more

Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves
Narrated by: Jesse Nobess
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

“Byron Graves (Ojibwe) pulls you deep into a classic sports drama within the heart of a midwestern Native community. Sophomore Tre Brun has a lot riding on making varsity—honoring his deceased brother’s legacy, chasing his own dreams of scholarships (or even NBA stardom), and giving his town an overdue win. Graves’s characters are vibrantly real,... Read more

Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

“Perry Firekeeper-Birch's summer plans of fishing and lazing are upturned when she wrecks her Jeep and owes her Auntie Daunis for the repairs. Instead, she interns for her Ojibwe Tribe and kindles a passion for the repatriation of her ancestors' remains and cultural artifacts. Easily one of my top reads of this year, Warrior Girl Unearthed is a... Read more

Chooch Helped

By: Andrea L. Rogers
Narrated by: DeLanna Studi
Length: 10 minutes

Sissy’s younger brother, Chooch, isn’t a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday after all. But no matter what Chooch does—even if he’s messing something up, which is basically all the time!—their parents just say he’s “helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything!

When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When... Read more