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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.

Edward S. Curtis: Printing the Legends - Looking at Shadows in a West Lit Only by Fire

Edward S. Curtis: Printing the Legends - Looking at Shadows in a West Lit Only by Fire

$79.95

If you think you know the Curtis story, think again. This landmark publication is not only packed with stunning illustrations but also astounding discoveries about Curtis's life. For example, the 1898 perpetually repeated legend of Curtis rescuing George...

The Huckleberry Book

The Huckleberry Book

$11.95

Here it is, the final word on the most sought-after wild fruit in the mountain west, the tangy berry that makes its domestic cousin, the blueberry, seem like bland stuff. This wildly popular book features 37 delectable recipes from cakes to champagne...

Who Am I? (children's book)

Who Am I? (children's book)

$18.99

"Who am I?" a young girl asks her mom as she snuggles close. "You are the fire that burns and the eagle that soars. You are the oak tree and the wild rose," says momma. Written from an Indigenous perspective, Who Am I? tells the story of how we are all...

The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans

The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans

$45.00

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land.The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today’s most boldly innovative Native...

Book- Wendy Red Star: Delegation

Book- Wendy Red Star: Delegation

$65.00

Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsáalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.Red Star centers Native American life and...

Book - A Quillwork Companion (2nd Edition) cover page

Book - A Quillwork Companion (2nd Edition)

$19.95

New 2nd Edition now in color! With over 200 illustrations and 60 photographs in full color, and 10 more in black and white, this is a fine addition to the field of arts and crafts and a must for the traditionally oriented craftsman. Originally...

Book: Red Cloud and the Indian Trader

Book: Red Cloud and the Indian Trader

$24.95

John William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia. After the Civil War, when he fought as a Confederate soldier with Mosby's Rangers, he went West. For fifteen years, until his premature death, Dear lived a...

Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation

Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation

$17.95

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and...

Book - Plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains (2023 Reprint)

Book - Plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains (2023 Reprint)

$38.00

2023 Reprint! Some 600 plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains of western South Dakota and neighboring Wyoming - plants that may be showy or shy, ecologically meaningful, troublesome, or significant because of their uses as foods and...

Book - Grassland Plants of South Dakota and the Northern Great Plains (2023 Reprint)

Book - Grassland Plants of South Dakota and the Northern Great Plains (2023 Reprint)

$24.00

2023 Reprint! In the grasslands of South Dakota and the northern Great Plains are many hidden treasures. Anywhere in the state - in the east where the stands of grass are elegantly tall and thick, in the central Missouri River section, and in the...

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...

Grandfather's Bedtime Stories: Three Traditional Sioux Folktales

Grandfather's Bedtime Stories: Three Traditional Sioux Folktales

$22.50

There was a time when the only on the prairies came from the sun, moon, stars, and the campfires of Indian people. There were no written words, but tales and traditions took life and were passed down in stories told around the million campfires...

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...

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...

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

$17.00

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”Featuring stories by:Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline •...

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...