Caedmon Audio has a three-hour audio cassette of Erdrich's book Tracks, which features Louise Erdrich and her husband, Michael Dorris, describing the daily life of Native Americans of North Dakota during the nineteenth century and the clash of their native legends and beliefs with white culture. It was recorded in 1989, the year "Bidwell Ghost" was published.

An abridged version of Erdrich's most famous novel, Love Medicine, is read by Erdrich and Dorris on a two-cassette recording from Harper and Row, released in 1990.

Erdrich's short story "The Bingo Van" is read by Joe Spano on Volume Ten in the series of cassettes produced by Symphony Space called Selected Shorts. This volume was recorded in 1986.

Erdrich is one of several authors examined on the videocassette Voices on the Water, which is a documentary of the International Festival of Writers, originally released in 1988 under the title Authors of the World...