First Nations

The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

“This dystopian young adult novel by indigenous author Cherie Dimaline, narrated by Meegwun Fairbrother, explores race, culture, and the devasting effects of colonialism. Dimaline’s fast-paced coming-of-age story is eerily riveting even as she makes clear points about the treatment of native peoples by white power structures. I loved listening to... Read more

Five Little Indians

A Novel

By: Michelle Good
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

WINNER: Canada Reads 2022WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for FictionWINNER: Amazon First Novel AwardWINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize Finalist: Scotiabank Giller PrizeFinalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust PrizeFinalist: BC & Yukon Book PrizeShortlist: Indigenous Voices AwardsNational Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of... Read more

There There

A novel

By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo & Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“Heartbreaking and necessary, this book is raw, powerful, and storytelling at its finest. It's a woven tapestry of the urban Indian experience as few outside these communities have seen it. Vignettes follow 12 people through time and space as they make their way to the Big Oakland Powwow. Each person has their own struggles with identity, life, ... Read more

Indigenous Writes

A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues in Canada

By: Chelsea Vowel
Narrated by: Brianne Tucker
Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace… Are you familiar with the terms listed above? In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue... Read more

From the Ashes

The Jennie McGrady Mysteries: Book #10

By: Patricia H. Rushford
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Jennie McGrady's enthusiasm for the new school year is extinguished when the culturally diverse Trinity Center, home to her church and school, is destroyed by fire. Rumors abound that a racist organization is behind the tragedy, but Jennie is more concerned about the one person who was critically injured: family friend Michael Rhodes.Jared... Read more

Kabloona

Among the Inuit

By: Gontran de Poncins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening.In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He was at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others'... Read more

True North Rising

My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North

By: Whit Fraser
Narrated by: Whit Fraser
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor... Read more

Sanaaq

An Inuit Novel

Contemporary Studies on the North: Book #4

By: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

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

A Canadian Shame

The Indian Act and Residential Schools

By: Darren Grimes
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every listener to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes' heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book, but the superior documentation is what makes it as credible as it is fascinating. Although a light is being shined... Read more

Indian Winter

By: Kazim Ali
Narrated by: Kazim Ali
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can’t escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. ”I am leaving for the winter – I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers – to write, read, think, all the most important things in the world but which are thought... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces... 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

“A beautiful journey into nature’s reciprocity and abundance when stewardship is prioritized. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s narrates ecological science into poetry. A life changing and inspiring experience. You’ll never look at the outside world the same way again. Read more

My Indian

By: Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe & Sheila O’Neill
Narrated by: Sheila O’Neill
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the... Read more