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.

Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures In Country

Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures In Country

$60.00

Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting...

Animals of the National Parks: An Alphabet Book

Animals of the National Parks: An Alphabet Book

$18.99

What animals can you see in the national parks? Learn about American Bison, the flying squirrel, and other creatures in this introduction to the wildlife in America’s national parks. Discover fun facts and which parks the animals live in...

Lone Dog Road: A Novel

Lone Dog Road: A Novel

$21.95

During the drought-stricken summer of 1950, two Lakota boys, ages eleven and six, huddle in a boxcar hurtling through the prairie night as they run from a government agent sent to take the younger boy to an Indian boarding school. But what begins as a...

Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937

Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937

$45.00

Regarding peyote use among Native Americans, an ethnologist noted in 1891: “The ceremonial eating of the plant has become the great religious rite of all tribes of the southern plains.” But, as Lisa D. Barnett observes in Peyote...

Grow Food Anywhere

Grow Food Anywhere

$25.00

Follow the concept of “right crop, right place” to grow delicious fruits and vegetables that will thrive in your outdoor space Expert gardener Lucy Chamberlain grows more than 150 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and crops in her...

Herbal Remedies Handbook

Herbal Remedies Handbook

$22.99

Take charge of your health naturally with tried-and-true plant based treatments. Explore the health properties and practical uses of more than 140 medicinal herbs, such as turmeric, rosemary, and ginger. Browse the fully illustrated expert...

Lakota Life after the Buffalo: Life & Times of Victor Swallow

Lakota Life after the Buffalo: Life & Times of Victor Swallow

$22.99

The older I get I think back to my childhood when life was simple. We were grateful to get something to eat and were never picky about the food that was set in front of us. We didn’t have indoor plumbing. We got wood from nearby...

South Dakota Warriors In Khaki: Native American Doughboys from South Dakota

South Dakota Warriors In Khaki: Native American Doughboys from South Dakota

$26.25

South Dakota Warriors in Khaki is a record of the native veterans from the nine reservations in South Dakota. It includes some veterans who served in the 1920s. In the 1930 Federal Census, these men were listed as veterans of the World War. South...

Old School Indian: A Novel

Old School Indian: A Novel

$28.00

Abe Jacobs is Kanien’kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. He met the love of his life, started...

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians

$37.95

In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an...

This Land: The History of the Land We’re On

This Land: The History of the Land We’re On

$18.99

Before my family lived in this house, a different family did, and before them, another family, and another before them. And before that, the family who lived here lived not in a house but a wigwam. Who lived where you are before you got...

The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel

The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel

$12.99

A joyful coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel by debut Indigenous creator Cameron Mukwa about the journey of a two-spirit kid who wants to create a ribbon skirt for the upcoming powwow. Ten-year-old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of...

National Geographic: Backyard Guide to Edible Plants

National Geographic: Backyard Guide to Edible Plants

$24.99

Forage more than 100 delicious edible plants straight from your backyard with this useful, engaging, beautifully illustrated guide. Nature-lovers, gardeners, and foodies can turn their backyard into a bounty with tips for identifying wild plants, advice...

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

$32.00

In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government’s treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other tribes of the northern plains. Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of...

The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America

The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America

$35.00

How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate...

Teton Sioux Music & Culture

Teton Sioux Music & Culture

$40.00

Frances Densmore's Teton Sioux Music and Culture is one of the many volumes that resulted from her prolific life-long project to record and transcribe the traditional music of American Indian peoples. The book explores the role of music in all...

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

$19.95

The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land...

Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts From A Dakota Garden

Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts From A Dakota Garden

$25.95

In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality, discovering solace and ceremony in communing with the earth. Observing and...

Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

$35.00

Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the diversity of plant foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important. The...

A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

$41.99

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the...

The Wolf and the Crow

The Wolf and the Crow

$26.99

Prominent Redoubt County rancher Hal Lamar and retired Smokey River Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency Superintendent William Black Spotted Horse could not be more different. Forced to travel to a different continent to cooperate in a daring rescue mission...

The Last Prisoner of the Little Bighorn

The Last Prisoner of the Little Bighorn

$26.99

It falls to university professor Dr. Gavin Lone Wolf to protect and preserve his family's surprising legacy and to solve a murder on South Dakota's Smokey River Indian Reservation. Set within the framework of the historical Battle of the Little Bighorn...

The Gift of the Great Buffalo

The Gift of the Great Buffalo

$18.99

Before there was a little house on the prairie, there was a tipi on the prairie. Rose is a young Métis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Métis families. The ritual...

The Ones Who Got Away: Stories

The Ones Who Got Away: Stories

$24.99

Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut,...