Audiobooks by Indigenous Authors

Song of the Exile

By: Kiana Davenport
Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich... Read more

The Spy Lover

By: Kiana Davenport
Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Thrust into the savagery of the Civil War, a Chinese immigrant serving in the Union Army, a nurse doubling as a spy for the North, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined.Fleeing drought and famine in China, Johnny Tom arrives in America with dreams of becoming a citizen. Having survived vigilantes hunting... Read more

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

By: Lili‘uokalani
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.

Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in... Read more

Lei and the Fire Goddess

By: Malia Maunakea
Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

"Lei and the Fire Goddess blends preteen angst and beloved Hawaiian moʻolelo in a way that hasn't been done before." —Auliʻi Cravalho, actress and voice of Disney's Princess Moana

Curses aren't real.

At least, that's what twelve-year-old, part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about sacred... Read more

Poukahangatus

Poems

By: Tayi Tibble
Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.

Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in... Read more

She Is Not Your Rehab

One Man’s Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired

By: Matt Brown
Narrated by: Matt Brown
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. As the creator of My Fathers Barbers, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Zealand men to break free from the cycle of abuse — and those men have in turn inspired Matt and his wife,... Read more

The Dawnhounds

By: Sascha Stronach
Narrated by: Anna Coddington
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a... Read more

Dawn Raid

By: Pauline Vaeluaga Smith
Narrated by: Tameka Sowman Vahatau
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Sofia is like most twelve-year-old girls in New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? WHY does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starts talking about protests, overstayers, and injustices... Read more

How to Loiter In a Turf War

A Novel

By: Coco Solid
Narrated by: Coco Solid
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Like nothing you’ve heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa’s most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It’s a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more

Avenue of Champions

A Novel

By: Conor Kerr
Narrated by: Jani Lauzon & Shane Ghostkeeper
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the... 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 Knock on the Door

The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged

Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation: Book #1

By: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation... Read more

Structures of Indifference

An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City

By: Mary Jane Logan McCallum & Adele Perry
Narrated by: Wesley French
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Structures of Indifferenceexamines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city,... Read more

The Beadworkers

Stories

By: Beth Piatote
Narrated by: Beth Piatote, various narrators, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, Drew Woodson, Phillip Cash Cash & Keevin Hesuse
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Beth Piatote’s luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary worldTold with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find... Read more

Walking the Old Road

A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe

By: Staci Lola Drouillard
Narrated by: Staci Lola Drouillard
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North ShoreAt the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61,... Read more

We Are Water Protectors

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

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

White Horse

A Novel

By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“If I had read White Horse on the page, Kari would have sounded exactly in my head the way Tonantzin Carmelo sounds in the audiobook. The main character of White Horse is fierce, sure of herself, and amazingly loving despite everything she’s gone through, and Carmelo captures her subtle intensity with expertise. In fact, White Horse is subtly... 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

The Stone Collection

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Narrated by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and preciousness of life. —Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm In these 14 unique stories, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm takes on complex and dangerous emotions,... Read more