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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.

Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 - Book

Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 - Book

$18.95

"No two people ever remember a single event in identical ways, especially with the passage of time." ~Excerpt from the book.This fascinating look into history tells the tale of the people who were directly involved in the war of 1862. There are differing...

Pow Wow Dancer's & Craftworker's Handbook

Pow Wow Dancer's & Craftworker's Handbook

$19.95

This book is filled with photographs showing pow wows and dance costumes over the past 100 years, accompanied by written histories and first-hand accounts. North American tribes from coast to coast are celebrating their continuing native heritage with...

Book: The Inconvenient Indian - A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Book: The Inconvenient Indian - A Curious Account of Native People in North America

$16.95

In "The Inconvenient Indian", Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact.Ranging freely across the centuries and the...

Book - Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred

Book - Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred

$16.95

As it has been known throughout history, Sioux women have been the center of tribal life and the core of the tiospaye, the extended family. They have maintained the values and traditions of Sioux culture. But, the women’s stories and experiences...

The Man Who Dreamed Of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories From The Tipi - A Children's Book

The Man Who Dreamed Of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories From The Tipi - A Children's Book

$14.95

How did horses first appear to the peoples of the North American plains?According to the legends of the Blackfoot Indians, a wise man dreamed of strange animals in a far off land: they were as tall and strong as elk, but could be tamed like dogs and...

Lorenzo Eagle Road - H'oka Wicasa Ceremonial CD

Lorenzo Eagle Road - H'oka Wicasa Ceremonial CD

$18.50

Lakota Hanbleceyapi and Yuwipi Songs.

Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat - Book

Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat - Book

$18.00

With the possible exception of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of the Little Big Horn may be the most written about fight in American history. Even though it has been covered so extensively, it still might be our most misinterpreted, misconstrued...

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder & the Light from an Ancient Sky (Novel)

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder & the Light from an Ancient Sky (Novel)

$19.95

A child, an elder and the light from an ancient sky. A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers and the "old ones" still have powers beyond...

Book - The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian

Book - The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian

$49.95

This is a collection of Lakota winter counts, which were pictorial drawings on a hide recording an important annual event in history. This represents Lakota history and art at its finest and is also a contribution to the world of the Lakota.There are...

Guiding Your Child in Speaking the Lakota Language Book: Year Three

Guiding Your Child in Speaking the Lakota Language Book: Year Three

$25.00

This Lakota language book/cd is designed for parents to easily help teach their children to speak two simple conversational phrases a week. We hope that parents will learn at the same time so that they can replace these English sentences with Lakota ones...

Children's Book - Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

Children's Book - Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

$19.95

Red Cloud (1822-1909) was a great warrior and chief of the Lakota . Told from his perspective, Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender describes the events that brought him to prominence as a leader of his people and how he came to surrender them...

Book - Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight

Book - Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight

$39.95

The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Kearney in present day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts cite this statement in...

Book: The Journey of Crazy Horse

Book: The Journey of Crazy Horse

$18.00

A captivating biography of the man who became a legend at the Battle of Little Bighorn.As the brilliant leader of a desperate cause and one of the most perennially fascinating figures of the American West, Crazy Horse crushed Custer's 7th Cavalry and...

Star Boy - Children's Book

Star Boy - Children's Book

$8.99

This retelling of an ancient Native tale relates the story of Star Boy, son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. It is considered a reverent, eye-catching rendition of an important Indian story. As a symbol of the Sun's disapproval for his mother's...

Book - American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

Book - American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

$34.95

As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was...

Book - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Book - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

$15.99

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andres Resendez illuminates in his myth-shattering THE OTHER SLAVERY, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret.There was no abolitionist movement to...

CD - Skan Skan - Lakota Sacred Songs (vol. 1)

CD - Skan Skan - Lakota Sacred Songs (vol. 1)

$18.50

Lakota sacred songs CD from Rosebud, South Dakota.Singers are Harold White Horse, Joe Yellow Robe, Johnson Running and Elva Thompson.

The Boy & His Mud Horses & Other Stories From The Tipi : Children's Book

The Boy & His Mud Horses & Other Stories From The Tipi : Children's Book

$14.95

"One night the boy took his blanket to a hilltop near the village. When we lie down looking up at the stars, and we hear the rumble of far-off thunder, who can say if we fall asleep? Suddenly there were strange and magnificent animals in the sky.......

The Sioux In South Dakota History Book

The Sioux In South Dakota History Book

$18.95

These thirteen essays, taken from the pages of SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY, the quarterly journal of the South Dakota State Historical Society, explore modern American Indian political and cultural life.In five themed sections, contributors examine the...

CD - Joseph Shields - Wahancanka, Remember Me Grandfather (Lakota Pipe & Ceremonial Songs)

CD - Joseph Shields - Wahancanka, Remember Me Grandfather (Lakota Pipe & Ceremonial Songs)

$18.50

This CD is beautifully presented, these sacred Lakota Pipe and Ceremonial songs illustrate the Lakota spiritual way of life. Of Ihunktowan Dakota | Sicangu Lakota heritage, singer Joseph Shields, Jr. carries on the tradition of his forefathers as the...

CD - Taku Skan Skan (Yuwipi Songs)

CD - Taku Skan Skan (Yuwipi Songs)

$18.50

This CD contains Lakota Yuwipi Songs.Spoken in Lakota by Elmer Running Man, the introduction to this recording is a powerful performance poetry. The introduction, along with the lyrics are translated in the included in the booklet. Featured songs...

Book: Spotted Tail's Folk - A History Of The Brule Sioux

Book: Spotted Tail's Folk - A History Of The Brule Sioux

MSRP: $29.95

$19.95

The story of Spotted Tail and his people is the story of the deadly game of resistance and subjugation. The government expected the Sioux to live on a reservation, to farm the land, raise cattle, send their children to school and adopt Christianity - all...

Book - The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

Book - The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

$17.00

Red Cloud, the great Sioux warrior-statesman, was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms.At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim control of...

Standing Rock Sioux - Book

Standing Rock Sioux - Book

$21.99

There is a rock of incredible legend and history that stands before the Standing Rock Agency. Years ago a Dakota man took a second wife, thereby bruising the ego of his first. As camp was breaking up and the tribe was moving on, the first wife pouted and...