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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 - 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...

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...