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The Seattle Times Recommends Audiobooks Featuring Indigenous Authors, Characters, and Narrators

Originally Published: October 09, 2020

For Indigenous People's Day (which is this Monday), the Seattle Times has curated a plethora of audiobooks by, about, and/or narrated by Indigenous voices, including N. Scott Momaday's The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems (Harper Collins). The audiobook is even "narrated in the author’s own magnificent, rolling baritone," writes David Wright. Further: 

These varied works owe as much to such poets as Emily Dickinson and his mentor Yvor Winters as to Indigenous traditions and his own upbringing on American Southwest reservations. Nowhere is this poetic syncretism more evident than in the title poem, an honor song to the Kiowa warrior and chief laid forth in elegant iambic hexameter. It is a sumptuous recital.

Read more at the Seattle Times.