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.
The Education of Clarence Three Stars: A Lakota American Life
$34.95
In The Education of Clarence Three Stars Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was born in 1864 east of the Black Hills. His father, Yellow Knife, died when the boy was...
Edward S. Curtis: Unpublished Plains - Photographs, Memoirs, Conservations with Native Friends
$79.95
Almost 200 previously unpublished Edward Curtis images of Native Americans of the Great Plains region have now entered the public eye. These tucked-away photographs weren’t initially chosen for Curtis’ 20-volume The North American Indian...
The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands
$29.95
When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson each had different takes on how to solve the “Indian...
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
$20.00
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from...
To Kill An Eagle: Indian Views on the Last Days of Crazy Horse
$14.95
This unique book sheds new light on Crazy Horse and his people, the Teton Sioux. It is based on interviews with over thirty elderly Sioux people as well as on years of research in published and unpublished sources. All of the informants...
The Most Boring Book Ever (children’s book)
$19.99
Listen, this book is boring. We're telling you it's boring. It's in the title of the book―in fact, it's THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER! And created by #1 New York Times bestsellers Brandon Sanderson and Kazu Kibuishi!
Don't peek behind the cover!...
Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition) - Children’s Book
$19.99
“Noozhishenh, bimadiziwin,” Nookomis says. “My granddaughter, live a good life.”
An Ojibwe grandmother carefully measures and selects just the right colors of fabric, and her sewing machine hums whirr, whirr, whirr late...
The Heartbeat Drum: The Story of Carol Powder, Cree Drummer and Activist
$19.99
Whenever young Carol Powder sang along to her family’s music, her heart felt light and full of joy. Learning from her grandfather, Moshum, Carol listened closely to the drums’ heartbeat until one day Moshum made her a drum of her very own...
Patience…Discover How the Best Things in Life Take Time
$24.99
A lot of life is spent waiting—waiting for the day to start, waiting for the toast to cook, waiting for the school bus. Waiting is not easy, but as life happens, things change and grow while you are waiting. Discover how good things take time, and...
Bea’s Bees (Children’s book)
$9.99
Beatrix discovers a wild bumblebee nest on her way home from school and finds herself drawn to their busy world. When her bees mysteriously disappear, Bea hatches a plan to bring them back. Follow along with Bea as she uses her school library to learn...
Glow: A Family Guide to the Night Sky
$22.99
Glow: A Family Guide to the Night Sky is a lushly illustrated introduction to the wonders of the night sky, inviting young readers to explore stars, planets, and other celestial bodies and learn how to spot them.
Get ready to explore the night sky!...
The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
$29.99
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded―increasing 85 percent in just ten years―the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not...
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
$35.00
Timothy C. Winegard's The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe. When one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the...
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
$30.00
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage—to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions:...
Frostfire (children’s book)
$18.99
On a walk through a snow-covered garden, big sister Miriam claims to hear the sound of a snow dragon. Little sister Celeste has lots of questions: snow dragons are real? Where do they hide? What do they eat? And is that frost on the greenhouse windows or...
Northern Plains Native Americans | A Modern Wet Plate Perspective (Volume 3)
$70.00
Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective (VOLUME 3) presents a selection from Balkowitsch's photographic project which aims to capture 1000 wet plate portraits of Native Americans over four volumes. Following in the footsteps of...
Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold (book)
$45.00
“The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States,” Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the...
Voices from Haskell: Indian Students Between Two Worlds, 1884-1928 (book)
$32.99
Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a century and a quarter since that time, this famous boarding school institution...
Zinkta! - Lost Bird of Wounded Knee - Zintkala Nuni (book)
$16.99
This is a companion book for the award winning short film “Lost Bird (Zintkala Muni) which also includes lead sheet for the song “Little Bird - Lost Bird of Wounded Knee”.
A true story of "found and lost" . . . and found again...
Seed to Plate - Soil to Sky: Modern Plant-based Recipes Using Native American Ingredients
$30.00
This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao—with more than 100 recipes.
When these eight Native American plants...
The Sacred Wisdom of Native Americans (book)
$16.99
In The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans, Professor Larry J. Zimmerman tells the tragic tale of their conquest and dispossession, followed by their survival against the odds and the renewal of pride in a distinctive cultural heritage. Learn...
I Was A Teenage Slasher: A Novel
$29.99
Lamesa, Texas, July 1989. It’s the summer before senior year for best friends Tolly Driver and Amber Dennison. They’re not in the marching band, they’re not in the FFA - they don’t really count. Amber’s the...
Where Wolves Don’t Die: A Novel
$18.99
Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at...