Indigenous Audiobook Narrators You Should Be Listening To

Here are some of the most outstanding Indigenous audiobook narrators you should be listening to, from award-winners to up-and-comers. 


Erin Tripp

Erin Tripp, Tlingit of the Deisheetaan clan, was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska. A theater performer and voice actor, she was one of the narrators for AudioFile Earphones Award-winner The Smell of Other People’s Houses.

Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town

By Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

The Smell of Other People’s Houses

By Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock


Bronwyn Szabo

A proud half-Inuk, Bronwyn Szabo is an actress, writer, dancer, producer, and director based in Toronto. She made her audiobook narrator debut in Marlowe Granada’s Happy Hour.

Happy Hour

By Marlowe Granados


Gary Farmer

Gary Farmer was born in Ohsweken, Ontario into the Cayuga Nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy. In his narration of The Round House by Louise Erdrich, Farmer “introduces the listener to the Coutts family, members of the Ojibwe tribe who reside on a reservation in North Dakota in the 1980s” and is “perfectly cast due to his own Native American background” (AudioFile).

The Round House

By Louise Erdrich

The Cold Millions

By Jess Walter

The Removed

By Brandon Hobson


Rainy Fields

Rainy Fields was born in Claremore, Oklahoma, and is a registered member of the Muskogee Creek Nation and is of Cherokee descent. When she’s not narrating audiobooks, she works with The Mayflower Welcoming Committee, an all-Native improv troupe, as well as the Native Voices at the Autry, the USA’s only Equity theater company dedicated to new works by Native playwrights. She also cohosts the podcast Hollywood Ndnz, exploring what it’s like to be Native in the entertainment industry.

Terese Marie Mailhot

By Terese Marie Mailhot

The Beginning and End of Rape

By Sarah Deer

Black Snake

By Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys


Cara Gee 

Born in Alberta and raised in Ontario, film, television, and stage actress Cara Gee is Ojibwe. When she’s not acting for the TV series The Expanse, she lends her talents to voice acting and audiobook narration. In The Light Brigade, Gee “perfectly evokes the weary drawl of a battle-hardened soldier in this intricately constructed science fiction audiobook” (AudioFile).

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

By Stephen Graham Jones

The Light Brigade

By Kameron Hurley

Black Sun

By Rebecca Roanhorse


Isabella Star LaBlanc

Based in Minneapolis, Isabella Star LaBlanc is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota stage, screen, and voice actor. Her performance in Firekeeper’s Daughter “brings an authentic-sounding narration to this powerful audiobook . . . . Dialogue, including words in other languages, is handled with effortless transitions and clear depictions between characters” (AudioFile).

Firekeeper’s Daughter

By Angeline Boulley

Dark Roads

By Chevy Stevens


Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Actor, singer, and writer Shaun Taylor-Corbett is of Blackfeet heritage of Montana. His performance of The Brave is complete with “stellar descriptions of nature and Ojibwe life add to the believability of this magical story” (AudioFile).

The Only Good Indians

By Stephen Graham Jones

A Snake Falls to Earth

By Darcie Little Badger

Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


Darrell Dennis

Darrell Dennis is an Indigenous comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality from the Secwepemc Nation in the interior of British Columbia. His extensive audiobook narrations include the acclaimed There There by Tommy Orange.

Winter Counts

By David Heska Wanbli Weiden

There There

By Tommy Orange

House Made of Dawn

By N. Scott Momaday


Kyla Garcia

Kyla Garcia is an Indigenous actor, director, poet, and artivist raised on unceded Lenape land. Her people are the Taíno Nation of Borikén. Narration accolades include 13 AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations for her work on Tommy Orange’s There There and Alan Gratz’s Refugee. Like fellow narrator Rainy Fields, Kyla is a proud ensemble member of Native Voices at the Autry. She is also the creator of the critically acclaimed one-woman show The Mermaid Who Learned How to Fly. Learn more at her website.

We Set the Dark on Fire

By Tehlor Kay Mejia

Nocturna

By Maya Motayne

A Mind Spread out on the Ground

By Alicia Elliott


Tanis Parenteau

Tanis was born and raised in Peace River, Alberta; she is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta from Region VI and is of Plains Cree descent. Outside of narrating audiobooks, Tanis is an actor on both the stage and television, as well as the founder and owner of the production company TDEP Productions.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

Saving Grace

By Kirsten Powers

She Persisted: Maria Tallchief

By Christine Day & Chelsea Clinton


Kinsale Hueston

An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Kinsale Hueston is an award-winning writer and poet, actress, audiobook narrator—all while enrolled at Yale University. Kinsale was named a new “rising star” within the audiobook world by BookRiot: “Hueston narrates these stories in such a way that captures the youth and vibrancy of the stories’ protagonists. They’re spunky and self-assured, and Hueston delivers their dialogue with all of the characters’ vibrant personalities.”

Race to the Sun

By Rebecca Roanhorse

The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities

By Rick Riordan

A Snake Falls to Earth

By Darcie Little Badger


T’áncháy (Tunchai) Redvers

T’áncháy (Tunchai) Redvers, known to spirit as White Feather Woman, is a two-spirit social justice warrior, writer, and wanderer belonging to Deninu K’ue First Nation. They work as a writer, speaker, creator, performer, and advocate and are based in southern Ontario.

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty

By Hana Shafi


Kaniehtiio Horn

Kaniehtiio Horn a Canadian actress from Kahnawake, the Mohawk reserve outside of Montreal. The award-winning actress, who has worked on Letterkenny, Man in the High Castle, and Hemlock Grove, has also lended her skills to audiobook narration.

The Case of the Burgled Bundle

By Michael Hutchinson

Literatures, Communities, and Learning

By Aubrey Jean Hanson


Billy Merasty

Much like many audiobook narrators, Billy Merasty is also an actor, both on stage and on film. He was born on Brochet, Manitoba, Canada and is of Cree descent.

Thunder Through My Veins

By Gregory Scofield

Moon of the Crusted Snow

By Waubgeshig Rice


Meegwun Fairbrother

Meegwun Fairbrother is Ojibwe and Scottish origin, from Treaty 3 territory. Growing up, he lived up on many First Nations communities across Northern Ontario where he he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and taking part in many Ojibwe cultural practices. Meegwun is an accomplished actor, as well as an Okichitaw Indigenous martial artist, personal trainer, and yoga teacher.

Hunting by Stars

By Cherie Dimaline

Coyote Tales

By Thomas King


Wilton Littlechild

Wilton Littlechild took a break from his work as a Canadian lawyer and Cree chief (who served as Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations and as a member of Parliament) to narrate Fred Sasakamoose’s powerful memoir Call Me Indian. He is a survivor of residential schools, the harmful network of mandatory boarding schools in Canada from 1894 to 1947; these were intended to isolate Indigenous children and assimilate them into Canadian culture.

Call Me Indian

By Fred Sasakamoose


Self-Narrated Audiobooks by Indigenous Authors

An American Sunrise

By Joy Harjo

The Sentence

By Louise Erdrich

Braiding Sweetgrass

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Last Pow-Wow

By That Native Thomas

Great Spirit Told Me

By Michael Looking Coyote

The Beadworkers

By Beth Piatote

Walking the Old Road

By Staci Lola Drouillard

Unreconciled

By Jesse Wente

Fry Bread

By Kevin Noble Maillard

Doty Meets Coyote

By Thomas Doty


Is there another Indigenous audiobook narrator you’ve listened to and loved?
Let us know in the comments below!

2 thoughts on “Indigenous Audiobook Narrators You Should Be Listening To

  1. I’m surprised not to see Robin Wall-Kimmerer here, as she read her own book Braiding Sweetgrass. But I’m very glad to have found your website! Thank you for assembling this collection of Indigenous Audiobook Narrators. You’ve given me a good place to do some of my homework as a settler, trying to learn reciprocity.

    1. Thank you Betty! That was our mistake—just added Braiding Sweetgrass to our section of author-read audiobooks.

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