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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.

Book: Images Of America - Ziebach County, 1910-2010

Book: Images Of America - Ziebach County, 1910-2010

$21.99

The "Images of America" series is a celebration of the history of towns and cities across the country. Each photograph and title depicts stories from the past that have shaped the character of the community as it exists today.The county seat Dupree;...

Book - Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

Book - Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

$21.95

"What is good in this book is given back to the six grandfathers and to the great men of my people" ~Black Elk Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight...

Book - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Book - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

$20.00

For all the keepers of the fire... As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest...

Muskrat and Skunk: Sinkpe na Maka, A Lakota Drum Story - Children's Book

Muskrat and Skunk: Sinkpe na Maka, A Lakota Drum Story - Children's Book

$19.95

"It was the first time that the animals and birds danced to the heartbeat of Mother Earth." Animals stop and listen. A new sound is in the forest. The beat vibrates through the trees and across the meadows. What is it? Where is it coming. Muskrat and...

Out of Print Book - Calamity Jane (1852-1903): A History of Her Life and Adventures in the West

Out of Print Book - Calamity Jane (1852-1903): A History of Her Life and Adventures in the West

$275.00

Calamity Jane did tell her own story in her own words and many books have been written about the life and times of this Old West figure. "She is a character who will always be in the literature of the West as a rugged part of the early frontier for she...

1876 Facts About Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn Book

1876 Facts About Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn Book

$13.00

"1876 FACTS ABOUT CUSTER is impressive, Jerry Russell's full-length effort is a gold mine of myths, legends and contemporary accounts of the most famous massacre in history, all presented in an original style. Especially welcome is the inclusion of an...

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder (Novel)

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder (Novel)

$16.95

Against the backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Indian, locked in their own understandings yet struggling to find a common voice. In...

Out of Print Book - Across the Wide Missouri

Out of Print Book - Across the Wide Missouri

$290.00

With an account of the discovery of the Miller collection by Mae Reed Porter. This book is also illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin. The Rocky Mountain fur trade was the final act in a world drama that...

Buffalo Woman - Children's Book

Buffalo Woman - Children's Book

$8.99

The Native American story of the Buffalo Woman comes from the tribes who followed the buffalo herds on the Great Plains. The buffalo was the source of life for the people, giving them food, hides for robes and tipi covers.The lives of both the buffalo...

Book - Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War

Book - Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War

$16.95

After Sitting Bull's surrender at Fort Buford in what is now North Dakota in 1881, the United States Army transported the chief and his followers down the Missouri River to Fort Randall, roughly seventy miles west of Yankton. The famed Hunkpapa leader...

CD - Skan Skan - Lakota Sacred Songs (vol. 2)

CD - Skan Skan - Lakota Sacred Songs (vol. 2)

$18.50

From White River, South Dakota, this CD further enhances the songs of volume 1.There is a booklet included that has the songs in Lakota and in English. Album includes: 1. Cannupa Opagi Olowan 2. Tatuya Topa Olowan - Four Directions Song 3. Wakan Wica...

The Woman Who Lived With Wolves - Children's Book

The Woman Who Lived With Wolves - Children's Book

$14.95

The story of "The Woman Who Lived With Wolves" belongs to Lakota historical tradition, and is believed to be a true tale.Legend tells that sometime in the early 1800s a party of Crow men who were on a horse-stealing expedition against their Lakota...

Book: An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Book: An Indigenous People's History of the United States

$17.95

Winner of the 2015 American Book Award. Today in the United Staes, there are more than 500 federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native peoples who once inhabited this land.The...

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Reading And Writing The Lakota Language Book

$24.95

Lakota is one of the three languages spoken by the greater Sioux Nation.Based on extensive research and teaching on the Rosebud Reservation, this elementary grammar presents the Sicangu dialect using an orthography developed by Lakota speakers in 1982...

Creating the Native American Star Quilt - Vol. 1: A Beginner's Workbook

Creating the Native American Star Quilt - Vol. 1: A Beginner's Workbook

$21.00

This step by step instructional workbook helps to clear up the mysteries surrounding the making of a star quilt. The book starts off with the language of the star quilt, goes onto the materials needed and even instructions on tools used. If you have ever...

Love Flute - Children's Book

Love Flute - Children's Book

$8.99

In love with a beautiful girl, but too shy to tell her, a young man is helped by the mysterious Elk Men. One night these mysterious men offer him a special gift - a love flute. Imbued with the voices of the birds and animals, it tells the girl of his...

Book - The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story

Book - The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story

$18.95

Eagle Elk’s story of his life, practice, and beliefs provides a uniquely introspective, demystified, and informative look at the career of a traditional Native American healer. We learn how a persistent vision and recurring visits by thunder...

The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 - Book

The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 - Book

$39.95

Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost-Dance among the tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and...

Book: American Indian Policy In The Twentieth Century

Book: American Indian Policy In The Twentieth Century

$24.95

The study of government policy, at any level, is best done by hindsight. Avowed beliefs of politicians and political parties are often subject to the expediencies of the moment and the road to programmatic hell is well paved, a beautiful boulevard of...

The Medicine Men - Book

The Medicine Men - Book

$19.95

For the residents of the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practice: the Sun Dance, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church,...

Book: The Rapid City Indian School 1898-1933

Book: The Rapid City Indian School 1898-1933

$19.95

"It did not occur to me at the time that I was going away to learn the ways of the white man. My idea was that I was leaving the reservation and going to stay away long enough to do some brave deed and then come home again alive. If I could just do that,...

Voices Of Wounded Knee - Book

Voices Of Wounded Knee - Book

$24.95

In VOICES OF WOUNDED KNEE, William S.E. Coleman brings together for the first time all of the available sources - Lakota, military and civilian - on the massacre of December 29, 1890.He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the...

Book - Lakota Society

Book - Lakota Society

$21.95

As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896-1914, Dr. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. This book presents the primary accounts of his informants and his syntheses dealing with the...

Book: Standing In The Light - A Lakota Way Of Seeing

Book: Standing In The Light - A Lakota Way Of Seeing

$17.95

Severt Young Bear stood in the light - in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the...