Audiobooks by Indigenous Authors

The Flicker

By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Kyla García & Suzy Jackson
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

ONE YEAR AGO, A SOLAR FLARE SCORCHED THE EARTH AND DESTROYED LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

With their parents gone and their supplies running low, grieving stepsiblings Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half-brother in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder—who Millie knows in her gut is still alive, even if Rose isn’t so sure. Along the... Read more

Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

Rupert's Land Record Society Series: Book #10

By: William Berens & A. Irving Hallowell
Narrated by: Wesley French
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because... Read more

Aki-wayn-zih

A Person as Worthy as the Earth

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies: Book #102

By: Eli Baxter
Narrated by: Eli Baxter
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Members of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life... Read more

Inheritance

A pick-the-path experience

By: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn & Michelle Bardach
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Three people – Indigenous, immigrant, and settler – journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom.
 
An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when... Read more

Life in the City of Dirty Water

A Memoir of Healing

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller
Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*





NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the... Read more

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

By: Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
Narrated by: Gail Maurice
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego... Read more

Who We Are

Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

By: Murray Sinclair
Narrated by: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair & Shelagh Rogers
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of the 2024 • An Audible Best Book of 2024 • One of Kobo CA’s Best Biography and Memoir Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and... Read more

Dammed

The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory

By: Brittany Luby
Narrated by: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more

A National Crime

The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

By: John S. Milloy
Narrated by: Wesley French
Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) “[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent... Read more

A Two-Spirit Journey

The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

Critical Studies in Native History: Book #18

By: Ma-Nee Chacaby
Narrated by: Marsha Knight
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... 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

Firewater

How Alcohol is Killing My People (And Yours)

By: Harold R. Johnson
Narrated by: Kairyn Potts
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcohol—its history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, Harold Johnson challenges readers to change the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many... Read more

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

Poems

By: Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United StatesIn these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from... 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

Godly Heathens

A Novel

The Ouroboros: Book #1

By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

"Avi Roque is the perfect narrator for this queer YA fantasy...The novel hits all the expected beats of YA fantasy, and Roque infuses it with even more life and drama." —AudioFile

Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from... Read more

Merciless Saviors

A Novel

The Ouroboros: Book #2

By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

The stunning conclusion to the Ouroboros series, a contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had... 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

Firekeeper's Daughter

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“Firekeeper's Daughter is a wonder! We so rarely hear YA through an Indigenous people's voice and this book does it so very well. Main character Daunis Lorenzo Fontaine lives a fine line between her white French Canadian mother and her Ojibwe father in a complicated family dynamic. She is smart, hockey talented, driven, and tenacious as she... Read more

We Are Water Protectors

(Caldecott Medal Winner)

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

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 14 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.

The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change.

It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it... Read more