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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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Mapping the Interior (Horror Novella)

$11.99

Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella. Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be...

Lies My Teacher Told Me Young Readers' Edition - front cover

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong - Young Readers' Edition Book (Non-Fiction)

$19.99

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and...

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Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement (Native American Activism Book)

$24.95

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline It is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline...

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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf

$25.99

Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim...

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Spotted Tail: Warrior and Statesman - Biography

$34.95

As a prominent leader of the Sicangu Lakotas during a time of conflict and change, Spotted Tail (1823–1881) left his mark on the Northern Great Plains. He was not a hereditary chief but developed his standing over time, first proving himself...

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Book - Land of the Nakoda: The Story of the Assiniboine Indians (From the Tales of the Old Ones)

$19.95

“Land of Nakoda” is a vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians of the northern plains. First published in 1942, it was written and illustrated by tribal members who interviewed the Old...

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When We Were Alone - Children's Book

$18.95

When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much...

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Book: The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson (Biography)

$22.95

Throughout his life, John Johnston was known by several names, including “Crow Killer” and “Liver-Eating Johnson” (without the “t”), names he earned through his penchant for killing Crow Indians before cutting out and...

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Organizing the Lakota: The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations (Native American Studies Non-fiction Book)

$24.95

In 1933 the United States Office of Indian Affairs began a major reform of Indian policy, organizing tribal governments under the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act and turning over the administration of reservations to these new bodies...

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Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Nonfiction Book)

$29.95

Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native...

Book: Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College

Book: Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College

$34.95

The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh’s diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book. The...

Waterlily: New Edition (Historical Novel)

Waterlily: New Edition (Historical Novel)

$16.95

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family’s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota...

I AM NOT A NUMBER - Children's Book

I AM NOT A NUMBER - Children's Book

$18.95

Irene and her family live together on Nipissing First Nation, until the day a government agent comes to their door to take Irene and two of her brothers away to live at a residential school, very far from home. Irene's parents don't want to send...

Book - Crazy Horse Weeps: Stories of Young Lives on South Dakota's Indian Reservations

Book - Crazy Horse Weeps: Stories of Young Lives on South Dakota's Indian Reservations

$16.95

For Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people, historical trauma, chronically underfunded federal programs, and broken promises on the part of the US government have resulted in gaping health, educational, and economic disparities compared to the general...

Moon Time Prayer - Children's Book

Moon Time Prayer - Children's Book

$14.99

What stories are girls told of womanhood? Are they of strength, grace, and creativity? Not long ago, they heard whispered tales of impending curses. Physical changes were clinically defined in textbooks, but not spoken of openly. Embarrassment was...

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Non-Fiction Book)

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Non-Fiction Book)

$20.00

Now featured on the 2019 New York Times Bestseller list! The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially...

All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre 1854-1855 (Nonfiction- Book)

All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre 1854-1855 (Nonfiction- Book)

$29.95

On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant’s cow. The...

Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man & Sioux Tradition (Biography)

Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man & Sioux Tradition (Biography)

$19.95

Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American...

Book - Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from The Paul Dyck Collection

Book - Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from The Paul Dyck Collection

$34.95

Over the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917–2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the buffalo-hunting peoples of the Great Plains. Only with its acquisition by the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill...

Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People - Book

Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People - Book

$85.00

Howard Terpning is one of the most lauded painters of Western art and considered by many to be a national treasure. He is known as the "storyteller of the Native American" because of his devotion to and respect for his subject matter, almost exclusively...

The Art of Howard Terpning - Book

The Art of Howard Terpning - Book

$60.00

More than one hundred color reproductions--accompanied by an illuminating text by Elmer Kelton--capture the rich history and culture of native Americans in artwork inspired by the traditions of the Crow, Sioux, Apache, Blackfeet, Nez Perce, and other...

The Thunder Egg: Children's Book

The Thunder Egg: Children's Book

$15.95

Stands-by-Herself lives with her grandmother in a buffalo-hide tipi among their Cheyenne people on the Great Plains. Other children make fun of her because she is always by herself dreaming. One day she finds a strange egg-shaped rock and senses...

Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians - Book

Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians - Book

$19.95

Although some aspects of Sioux history such as the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee are included in American history texts, along with mention of famous Sioux leaders such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, little attention is...

Book - Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Rerservation 1825-1892 (Biography)

Book - Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Rerservation 1825-1892 (Biography)

$29.95

Born on the shores of Big Stone Lake in modern-day South Dakota, Gabriel Renville (1825 1892) was a Sisseton-Wahpeton leader who opposed conflict with the United States during the Dakota War of 1862. He worked tirelessly to create and maintain a space...