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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.

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Book: The Children's Blizzard

$16.99

“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and...

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Book - The First Code Talkers: Native American Communications in World War I

$34.95

Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War II—but little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than...

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Book: WE DO NOT WANT THE GATES CLOSED BETWEEN US

$45.00

In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another...

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I Sang You Down from the Stars - Children's Book

$18.99

This unique baby book sings with Native cultural detail, while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby--with art by New York Times bestselling illustrator and...

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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

$9.99

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from...

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Fire Keeper’s Daughter (Young Adult Novel)

$14.99

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother...

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Book - Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century

$85.00

Lakota Texts is a treasure trove of stories told in the original language by modern Lakota women who make their home in Denver, Colorado. Sometimes witty, often moving, and invariably engaging and fascinating, these stories are both autobiographical and...

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Book: Massacring Indians From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee

$24.95

During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenous populations, and some of the conflicts stand out today as massacres, as they involved violent attacks on...

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Book: Native American Buffalo Robes: A Study of their Role in Plains Indian Societies and a Guide to Traditional Tanning Techniques

$25.90

This book illustrates the role which buffalo robes played within Plains Indian societies of the 18th and 19th century. It presents a one-of-a-kind documentation of the almost inexhaustible amount of different uses Native people made of tanned...

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Book: Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota

$25.95

“Minnesota” is derived from the Dakota phrase Mni Sota Makoce, Land Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds—and the people’s roots here remain strong. Authors Gwen Westerman and Bruce White examine narratives of the people’s...

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Book: American Indian Politics and the American Political System (4th Ed.)

$66.00

American Indian Politics and the American Political System is the most comprehensive text on the subject written from a political science perspective. The authors analyze the structures and functions of Indigenous governments (including Alaska Native...

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The Only Good Indians - A Novel

$16.99

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an...

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Book: Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens-Indigenous Recipes & Guide to Diet and Fitness (Revised Ed.)

$27.95

Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the...

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Book: Black Hills Myths & Legends: The True Stories Behind History’s Mysteries

$18.95

From the wily – and some say dangerous – jackalope to the world’s larges mammoth grave, this book makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of Mount Rushmore State’s most fascinating and compelling stories. This...

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Wowapi Wakan, Wicowoyake Yuptecelapi Kin: Bible History in the Language of the Teton Sioux Indians

$36.95

This book is a reprinted series of bible stories that was first published in 1924, written as history, in the language of the Teton Sioux Indians (Lakota), by Father Buechel, who lived and worked among the Lakota people on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge...

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Plant a Pocket of Prairie - A Children's Book

$14.95

Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota’s...

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Book: From Warriors to Soldiers - A History of American Indian Service in the United States Military

$14.95

Within six months of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, seventy-five hundred American Indians enlisted in the military, and the numbers grey steadily. By war's end, at least twenty-five thousand American Indian men and women had...

Book: "All Guns Fired At Once" - Native Voices of Wounded Knee, 1890

Book: "All Guns Fired At Once" - Native Voices of Wounded Knee, 1890

$34.95

Historians and others have long debated events surrounding the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 1890, which followed decades of conflict between American Indians and the United States military in the West. Government officials, reporters, and white...

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Book: Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway

$34.95

Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have never been fully recounted until now. In Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway, Louis Kraft tells...

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Book: Rosebud June 17th, 1875 - Prelude to the Little Bighorn

$34.95

The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and...

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Book: Prairie Republic - The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

$24.95

Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and...

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Book: The Last Sovereigns - Sitting Bull & the Resistance of the Free Lakotas

$24.95

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants...

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Book - Providing for the People: Economic Change among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875–1910

$45.00

The years between 1875 and 1910 saw a revolution in the economy of the Flathead Reservation, home to the Salish and Kootenai Indians. In 1875 the tribes had supported themselves through hunting—especially buffalo—and gathering...

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Book: Why We Serve - Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

$29.95

Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans...