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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: 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...

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Book: Jim Beckwourth

$19.95

Dismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams,...

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Book-Fort Union & Fort William: Letter Book & Journal 1833-1835

$29.95

Fort Union and Fort William offers a window into the fur and bison robe trade of the early 1830s, building upon the previous work of editors W. Raymond Wood and Michael M. Casler in Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau: Journal and Letter Books,...

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January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879 (Book)

$29.95

Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, inJanuary Moon, Greene draws from extensive research and...

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Children's Book: The Wolf's Trail - An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves (Novel)

$16.95

The Wolf’s Trail tells of Zhi-shay’, an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwanong in northern Minnesota. Zhi-shay’, who knows the whole story...

Book: Lies My Teacher Told Me-Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Book: Lies My Teacher Told Me-Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

$17.99

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the...

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Children's Book: Mary and the Trail of Tears - A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

$7.95

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence,...

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The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts: Finding Identifying, and Cooking Book

$18.95

Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for the taking. But to...

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Book-Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

$18.95

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the...

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Book: The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialsm from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee

$34.99

Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of the tumultuous relationship between the Plains Sioux and the United States in the 1800s. He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux...

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Too Strong to Be Broken: The Life of Edward j. Driving Hawk - Book

$27.95

Too Strong to Be Broken explores the dynamic life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran, chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, former president of the National Congress of American Indians, husband, father, recovered alcoholic,...

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Lakota Taolowan: Songs of the Lakota CD (Individual Volumes 1A, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6)

$18.50

These songs were recorded in the 1950's and 1960's by William K. Powers, who was adopted by Frank Afraid of His Horse and family. It is only now that he has decided to release them to the public. These recordings are intended to educate and...

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From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks - Book

$24.95

On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the Black Hills Daily Times the next day read “A GOOD...

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Children's Book: Tatanka and the Lakota People - A Creation Story

$9.95

After the Great Spirits Created the world, Tatanka, the holy man, turned himself into a buffalo and sacrificed his powers to help the Lakota people survive. With all that Tatanka provided, the Lakotas adapted to the world around them and prospered...

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Children's Book: We are Water Protectors

$17.99

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom...

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Book - Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball 1895-1970

$24.95

Indian basketball was born of hard times and hard places, its evolution traceable back to the boarding schools—or “Indian schools”—of the early twentieth century. Davies describes the ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of...

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Book: Honor the Grandmothers - Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories

$17.95

In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and...