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.

You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People

You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People

$21.99

Bringing together forty Indigenous writers, artists, activists, athletes, scholars and thinkers from across Turtle Island, this joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection celebrates the potential of young people, who they are and what they dream of.

The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West

The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West

$29.95

The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and...

Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

$39.95

With more than 50 contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous value systems. The book aims to educate and...

Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

$24.99

On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows...

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

$23.99

When Lost Bird was found alive as an infant under the frozen body of her dead mother following the December 1980 massacre at Wounded Knee, a general from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry made the choice to adopt her. While the general, Leonard W. Colby, who...

Fierce Aunties!

Fierce Aunties!

$19.99

Who do you go to for advice and support? Or when you want an adventure and a little extra courage? Or when you need to find that warrior spirit inside of you? Fierce Aunties! Aunties come in different shapes, sizes, and ages. They all...

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: A Novel

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: A Novel

$29.99

This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the sate of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran...

Eat the Weeds: A Forager's Guide to Identifying and Harvesting 274 Wild Foods

Eat the Weeds: A Forager's Guide to Identifying and Harvesting 274 Wild Foods

$24.95

Eat healthy, save money, and enjoy edible wild plants! Foraging is a treasure hunt. it's seasonal, sufficient, varied, and provides plenty of nutrients. It yields the satisfaction born of food independence and competence. There's no...

Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief

Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief

$17.99

A beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s poem “Washing My Mother’s Body,” which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable.As I wash my mother’s face, I tell herhow beautiful she is,...

47,000 Beads

47,000 Beads

$15.95

Peyton loves to dance, and especially at Pow Wow, but her Auntie notices that she’s been dancing less and less. When Peyton shares that she isn't comfortable wearing a dress anymore, Auntie Eyota asks some friends for help to get Peyton what she...

The Self-Sufficiency Garden

The Self-Sufficiency Garden

$21.00

In a 33 x 41 ft plot - half the size of a doubles tennis court - you can grow enough vegetables to be self-sufficient. Huw Richards tested his very own self-sufficiency garden, growing 7,250 portions in 10 months by spending an average of just 4...

Out of Print Book: Indian Treaties 1778-1883 (3rd Printing)

Out of Print Book: Indian Treaties 1778-1883 (3rd Printing)

$220.00

Condition: This particular book is in relatively good condition where it has little wear and tear to the cover, spine, and corners. This book was also previously stored at the Columbus Public Library in Nebraska so it has the original...

Out of Print Book: Now That the Buffalo’s Gone - A Study of Today’s American Indians (1st Edition)

Out of Print Book: Now That the Buffalo’s Gone - A Study of Today’s American Indians (1st Edition)

$45.00

Condition: This particular book is in relatively good condition. The plastic covering on the dust jacket has some wear and tear as well as the corners of the cover and some of the pages. Description: In “Now that the...

Out of Print Book: Hanta Yo: An American Saga (1st Edition)

Out of Print Book: Hanta Yo: An American Saga (1st Edition)

$65.00

Condition: This particular book has some major wear and definite tear to the paper dust jacket. The hardcover beneath has some wear on the corners, and there is also has some yellowing and staining on the pages. Description: “Hanta Yo:...

Out of Print Book: Lakota-English Dictionary

Out of Print Book: Lakota-English Dictionary

$75.00

Condition: This particular book is in excellent overall condition! It has relatively very little wear and tear on both the front and back covers, the spine, and the pages as well. The book has a dark navy blue cover with red lettering on both the...

A Place Called America: A Story of the Land and People

A Place Called America: A Story of the Land and People

$22.99

A Place Called America takes the long view of the land’s history, from its earliest formation and inhabitants up through today, and challenges its readers to think critically about the stories we tend to take for granted about our own history...

It's Busy Down in the Woods Today

It's Busy Down in the Woods Today

$19.99

Discover how the animals of Brown Bear Wood spend their days and search for over 100 hidden things in It’s Busy Down in the Woods Today, a brand-new picture book from the creators of the internationally bestselling If You Go Down to the...

Nature Explained: A Family Guide to 20 Nature Cycles

Nature Explained: A Family Guide to 20 Nature Cycles

$22.99

In Nature Explained, art and science blend together in a fascinating visual tour of more than 20 nature cycles. Discover how trees lose their leaves, what makes flowers bloom, why seeds travel, and many more incredible processes.Split into six...

The Vanishing Race

The Vanishing Race

$25.00

A century ago, a Philadelphia philanthropist sponsored a series of journeys to the American West to document Native American cultures and traditions. The Wanamaker Expeditions, conducted between 1908 and 1913, visited Crow Agency, Montana, near the site...

Big Chief: A Novel

Big Chief: A Novel

$28.99

Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions. After his mother’s sudden death in a car crash, he finished law school and returned to Passage Rouge—the reservation where he grew up—hoping to represent disadvantaged families in...

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...