Native American Books | Native American Music | Prairie Edge Trading

Books are filled with the authors interpretation of stories told or researched. The books carried by our store are specialized writings about the Northern Plains tribes of North America.

Prairie Edge carries a large selection of out-of-print books. These books include state history, Native American history and special interest. Out of print books are perfect for any historical collection.

Our collection of ceremonial music helps with learning the songs used during Sun Dancing, Sweat Lodge and other ceremonies.

Those Who Walked Before: How Ice Age Footprints in New Mexico Retell the Stories of the First Americans

Those Who Walked Before: How Ice Age Footprints in New Mexico Retell the Stories of the First Americans

$21.95

On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park’s biologist turned resource-program manager, spotted his first Ice Age human footprint. He initially ignored it as a print...

Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty 1776-2025

Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty 1776-2025

$33.99

Only Native Americans have held the political identity of being citizens of nations within a nation. After the American Revolution, they had to decide whether gaining United States citizenship would help to preserve their rights and property or be used...

Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States

Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States

$35.00

From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known “Indian wars,” the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to Native peoples for their land...

Mama’s Song

Mama’s Song

$18.99

Mama gently sings to her child of mino-bimaadiziwin--of living in harmony with nature and following the teachings of the Seven Grandfathers. As mother and child begin their journey together through life, they follow the footsteps of the mothers and...

The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

$32.95

When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as “Whites,” and Native Americans did not think of themselves as “Indians.” Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all...

Grandmother Moon

Grandmother Moon

$18.99

"Nohhum, doesn't it look like the moon is following us?" During her weekly car ride with her grandmother from the city to the reservation, a young Native girl ponders the moon that seems to follow them. Each week, she looks forward to listening to her...

The Animals Speak: The Lakota Way

The Animals Speak: The Lakota Way

$18.99

From our animal brothers and sisters, young readers can learn the Lakota Way, an ancient principle that transmits the virtues and values we should all strive to include in our own lives. If we watch and listen to their teachings, they will prepare us as...

Medicine Paint: The Art of Dale Auger

Medicine Paint: The Art of Dale Auger

$49.95

Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of Cree culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples. His use of bold, bright colours in oil painting explore the...

Spring Miracles: An Indigenous Celebration of Nature

Spring Miracles: An Indigenous Celebration of Nature

$14.99

It’s time to welcome a new season, and this spring is going to be extra special. Dani and her family are going on a special camping and climbing adventure! But the rocks are so big. Can the wonders of spring help Dani realize just...

Glow:With Sounds and Lights

Glow:With Sounds and Lights

$14.99

Oh, no! Firefly has lost his glow. Join him on a magical journey across land, sky and sea as he meets some bright new friends and discovers a shine that’s all his own. With sound, light and a sweet message of empowerment! This...

The Lakota Verb: A Guide to Lakota Speaking

The Lakota Verb: A Guide to Lakota Speaking

$72.00

The layout of this book is designed in such a way that it contains a self-teaching method for learning the Lakota language. The student will progress through the book, page by page, with each new page building upon understanding of the previous one...

Lakota Women’s Arts: Quillwork and Beadwork

Lakota Women’s Arts: Quillwork and Beadwork

$65.00

Much has been written about Lakota Sioux Indian men and their arts, especially those made in support of their hunting and warrior culture. Historically, however, very little scholarship has addressed Lakota women and their art forms. This lack of...

Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity

Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity

$32.00

The term “commod bod” is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal commodity food programs. In Commod Bods, Kasey Jernigan shares her ongoing...

You Are The Land

You Are The Land

$18.99

You Are the Land is a vivid ode to belonging within a family, within a community, and within the natural world. From the day she’s born, a child feels the love and power that come with being part of something bigger. She’s a new spring...

Sacred Fireplace: The Life & Teachings of a 37th Generation Lakota Medicine Man

Sacred Fireplace: The Life & Teachings of a 37th Generation Lakota Medicine Man

$18.00

Pete S. Catches Sr. (Petaga Yuha Mani) is known and beloved in Indian country for helping to bring the Sundance back out into the open in the early 60s, while it was still against the law. Now there are over 100 Sundance’s going on yearly on his...

Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century

Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century

$13.00

Wakinyan is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of religious figures, Stephen E. Feraca explains the...

Painting Native America: Indigenous Artis in the Twentieth Century

Painting Native America: Indigenous Artis in the Twentieth Century

$60.00

Generations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the...

For A Girl Becoming

For A Girl Becoming

$18.99

For a Girl Becoming imagines a girl’s journey from birth to young adulthood - one threaded with wonder, magic, tears, and laughter. Captivating verse accompanied by radiant paintings conjure home, generations of family, a land of desert...

North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present (Out of Print Book)

North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present (Out of Print Book)

$95.00

Adornment - jewelry, beadwork, and ceremonial regalia - is a defining medium in cultural expression for North American Indians. Southwestern turquoise jewelry and Plains beadwork are recognized hallmarks of Indian peoples, yet there exist many...

The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

$19.95

This revised and updated edition contains the most important writings of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first Native American author to live simultaneously in both the traditional world of the Santee Sioux and the modern civilization of the white man. Dr...

Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience

Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience

$24.95

Fitzgerald’s work focuses on Charles Eastman’s (Ohiyesa’s) compelling story of embracing the traditional cultural ideals of his nomadic ancestors while living in the modern industrialized world of his time. Born in a buffalo-hide...

Indian Boyhood

Indian Boyhood

$10.95

Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's. The hunts,...

The Soul of the Indian

The Soul of the Indian

$6.95

Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at Boston University School of Medicine, he...

When I Feel Lonely

When I Feel Lonely

$17.99

This newest book about emotion from beloved author and illustrator Britta Teckentrup is a powerful and timely exploration of childhood loneliness. It provides a calm, compassionate, and understanding voice, helping young readers to recognize and...