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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.

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

$19.95

As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference...

Our Way A Parallel History: An Anthology of Native History, Reflection, and Story

Our Way A Parallel History: An Anthology of Native History, Reflection, and Story

$29.95

Our Way: A Parallel History dispels the myths, stereotypes, and absence of information about American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian people in the master narrative of US history. For most of American history, stories of the country’s...

On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth (book)

On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth (book)

$16.95

Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice that Native peoples have engaged in for millennia. It was born of a careful mindfulness and attentiveness to our planet and all of its creatures, and a recognition that human...

Rise Up: Indigenous Music in North America (book)

Rise Up: Indigenous Music in North America (book)

$29.95

Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with...

Pine Needle Basketry: A Complete Book of Instructions for Making Pine Needle Baskets

Pine Needle Basketry: A Complete Book of Instructions for Making Pine Needle Baskets

$6.99

This special edition of 'Pine Needle Basketry : A Complete Book of Instructions for Making Pine Needle Baskets' was written by Linna Loehr Millikin, and first published in 1920, making it just shy of a century old. The book features chapters on...

Points of View: A Guide on Saskatchewan Projectile Points with Indigenous Perspectives (book)

Points of View: A Guide on Saskatchewan Projectile Points with Indigenous Perspectives (book)

$25.00

The first of its kind for Saskatchewan, this book blends Indigenous ways of knowing and archaeology's understanding of projectile points. Commonly called arrowheads, these durable objects found across the province are a testament to Indigenous...

The Plains Warbonnet: Its Story and Construction (book)

The Plains Warbonnet: Its Story and Construction (book)

$25.00

The Plains Indian Warbonnet has become the symbol most identified by the public with All Native Americans, regardless of their particular tribe or culture.This book addresses this misconception and other fascinating myths and realities pertaining to the...

Rock Your Mocs (Children's book)

Rock Your Mocs (Children's book)

$15.99

In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins—and...

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior (children's book)

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior (children's book)

$18.99

The seventh generation is creatingA sea of change.It was a soft voice, at first.Like a ripple.But with practice it grew louder.Indigenous women have long cared for the land and water, which in turn sustains all life on Earth―honoring their ancestors and...

Mascot: A Young Reader's Novel

Mascot: A Young Reader's Novel

$17.99

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue.In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to...

(book) Talking with Hands: Everything You Need to Start Signing Native American Hand Talk

(book) Talking with Hands: Everything You Need to Start Signing Native American Hand Talk

$24.99

Explore Native American culture and learn Hand Talk, also known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Sign Talk, and First Nation Sign Language.In Talking with Hands, professional Native American dancer, storyteller, and educator Mike...

The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie (book)

The Lyrical Artwork of Jim Denomie (book)

$40.00

The first posthumous survey of Ojibwe artist Jim Denomie’s paintings, which invite further conversation about American history, memory, and place. A prolific artist, Jim Denomie (La Courte Oreilles Band, Ojibwe, 1955–2022) did not begin...

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories (book)

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories (book)

$12.99

Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These thirty-two short stories -- from tales...

In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa (1795-1904) -book

In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa (1795-1904) -book

$38.95

When the cultural identity of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa was challenged by European Americans--who conceived of progress in terms of cultivated farmland--a tribal-federal conundrum occurred. Historian John M. Shaw untangles the...

Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader (book)

Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader (book)

$30.00

Spirit & Reason is a collection of the works of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century—Vine Deloria, Jr. Author of such classics as Red Earth, White Lies, and God is Red, Deloria takes readers on a...

God is Red: A Native View of Religion (50th Anniversary Edition) - book

God is Red: A Native View of Religion (50th Anniversary Edition) - book

$25.95

A 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic, God is Red.First published in 1973, Vine Deloria, Jr.’s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native American religious views, asking the reader to think about our species and...

Book: Last Standing Woman

Book: Last Standing Woman

$23.95

Born at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her people’s past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived on the same land for over a thousand years...

Phoenix Gets Greater (children's book)

Phoenix Gets Greater (children's book)

$21.95

Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance―ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling different, but his mom...

Exploring with Custer: the 1874 Black Hills Expedition (Revised 4th Edition) - book

Exploring with Custer: the 1874 Black Hills Expedition (Revised 4th Edition) - book

$49.00

New revised 4th Edition! Welcome to the trail... General George Armstrong Custer's journey to the Black Hills in 1874 was better documented than any other military expedition of the Old West. Not only did William H. Illingworth record superb...

Book - Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odam Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

Book - Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odam Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

$30.00

The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes—a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero.IRA HAYES tells the...

Children's Book: The Ice Cream Vanishes

Children's Book: The Ice Cream Vanishes

$18.99

Squirrel introduces themself at the start as an expert in making snacks disappear by eating or hiding them. What Squirrel really wants to do, though, is use magic to make the food vanish entirely. When a stray ice cream cone is discovered, Squirrel seeks...

D(L)akota Star Map Constellation Guide: An Introduction to D(L)akota Star Knowledge (book)

D(L)akota Star Map Constellation Guide: An Introduction to D(L)akota Star Knowledge (book)

$15.00

Back in Stock!This constellation guidebook focusing on D(L)akota Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the D(L)akota constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars...

Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife (book)

Back From the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife (book)

$26.95

Back From the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s Serengeti in recognition of its...

We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition (book)

We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition (book)

$30.00

After centuries of colonization, this important new work recovers the literary record of Oceti Sakowin (historically known to some as the Sioux Nation) women, who served as their tribes’ traditional culture keepers and culture bearers. In so doing,...