Audiobooks for Native American Heritage Month
They asked most heartily for a Day of Recognition. And finally, after several decades, Native people have the month of November to be honored for their contributions!
2019 marks Audiobook Accomplice’s first celebration of Native American Heritage Month where we’ll be showcasing an audiobook... or two... or three... each week written by talented Native American authors.
We’ll be delving into Literature, politics, and my favorite: History too!
So huzzah! Let’s all grab a throw blanket to ward off the November chill and curl up with a great audiobook!
Have any suggestions? We’d haaate to miss out on anything good, so please do drop me a line at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com with your ideas!
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Native American Nonfiction:
Written and Narrated By: Joseph M. Marshall III
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Mostly about a lost Way of Life
Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
Written and Narrated By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
One journalist’s obsession with one woman’s obsession…
By: Alicia Elliott / Narrated By: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Kyla Garcia turns mostly-crotchety essays into chipper and jaunty musings… Whatthe?!?
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
By: David J. Silverman / Narrated By: William Roberts
Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
We reeeeally should lay the Thanksgiving Myth to rest… oh. my. gosh…
By: Richard Wagamese / Narrated By: Christian Baskous
Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
Such a warm and healing book!
Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond
By: Joseph Medicine Crow / Narrated By: Henry Strozier
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Oh gosh how I wish this was longer!
By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum / Narrated By: James Dommek Jr.
Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
Tho’ a bit scattered and kinda sorta doesn’t wind everything up, ‘twas easy to listen to it all at one sitting… and be spooked!
The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
By: Sally Jenkins / Narrated By: Don Leslie
Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
A mightily inspirational listen… that’s pretty god awfully depressing as well…
A Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Joy Harjo
Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
What a surprise! What a real treat!
The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WW II
By: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila / Narrated By: David Colacci
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
You’d better believe this is a good book about a great man
Native American Fiction:
Series: Between Earth and Sky, Book 1
By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated By: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
Another winner! Not-quite 13-hours, and a LOT o’ time spent on the edge of one’s seat…!
By: Stephen Graham Jones / Narrated By: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Dunno what to make of this, but naturally: SGJ straddles both Halloween and Native American Heritage Month
By: Brian Young / Narrated By: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hrs
2-Stars for Valiant Intentions?! …I KNOW…!
Series: The Sixth World, Book 2
By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
Wherein a Book 2 exceeeeds expectations…!!!
By: Lauren Wolk / Narrated By: Jorjeana Marie / Epilogue By: Lauren Wolk
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Yeh yeh yeh—a caveat here, a caveat there, but mostly? Lovely…
A Novel
By: N. Scott Momaday / Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday, Darrell Dennis
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Dare I say it of this Classic? It’s not meeeee, it’s the danged novel…!
By: Stephen Graham Jones / Narrated By: Cara Gee
Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
Loved the concept, despaired with execution (No pun intended… sorta…), kinda a mixed bag…
A Novel
By: Tommy Orange / Narrated By: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia
Length: 8 hrs
Astonishing, just absolutely astonishing
By: Monique Gray Smith / Narrated By: Michelle Thrush
Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
What a surprise! What a real pleasure!
A Novel
By: Waubgeshig Rice / Narrated By: Billy Merasty
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
A quiet tale that builds and Builds and BUILDS until I danged near screamed with the tension!
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: Louise Erdrich
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
Yeah, it ends really quite abruptly. But oh my, the journey to get there!!!
By: Jean Craighead George / Narrated By: Christina Moore
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Sort of uneven, kinda depressing, ultimately hopeful. But ALWAYS a solid and wonderful look at Nature and Animals of Feeling
By: That Native Thomas, Steven Paul Judd / Narrated By: That Native Thomas
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Probably better in print (Oh my ears!) but erratic storytelling gives way to a genuinely rousing hip hip hooray of an ending
By: Charles Eastman, Elaine Goddale Eastman / Narrated By: Walter Covell, Cindy Hardin Killavey
Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
Only 2 hours and 17 minutes? Boooooooo! I want more!!!
By: Belinda Vasquez Garcia / Narrated By: Sarianna Gregg
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
A magic dream catcher that brings centuries of atrocities to life
Series: The Sixth World, Book 1
By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated By: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
What a reFRESHing and fun jaunt, jam-packed with action, mythology, and characters to root for!
By: Sherman Alexie / Narrated By: Adam Beach
Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
Categorized as Contemporary Fiction, this one goes down better if you think of it as Young Adult
By: Leslie Marmon Silko / Narrated By: Pete Bradbury
Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
Wow, this book gets either all love or all haaaate…
By: Stephen Graham Jones / Narrated By: Eric G. Dove
Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
Mightily creepy! But once again? Ya just canNOT trust a Publisher’s Summary
Series: Julie of the Wolves, Book 1
By: Jean Craighead George / Narrated By: Christina Moore
Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
So good you wanna listen to the sequels
Series: Julie of the Wolves, Book 2
By: Jean Craighead George / Narrated By: Christina Moore
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
Really loved this sequel!