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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.

Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness (book)

Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness (book)

$24.99

Held by the Land invites us to explore our natural surroundings and renew our connection to the land. With lyrical, meditative prose, ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph advocates for a way of living that develops and builds relationships wit the plant life...

Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas (book)

Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas (book)

$29.95

Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals caused by the European intrusion, Native people often thrived after contact,...

The Cottonwood Sings (children's book)

The Cottonwood Sings (children's book)

$14.95

The Cottonwood Sings is the delightful story of the lovely Hunku (First Woman), who was immortal and never aged. The animals and plants loved her, but Hunku was lonely. Every day she would go to the riverbank and cry herself to sleep. Beaver, who...

Book-The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Life in Native America (Adapted for Young Readers)

Book-The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Life in Native America (Adapted for Young Readers)

$19.99

Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much...

Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (book)

Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (book)

$27.00

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U.S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and Alaska Natives took over and now run the agency. Choctaw anthropologist Valerie Lambert...

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America (book)

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America (book)

$50.00

A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip...

Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition (book)

Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition (book)

$21.95

The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country’s attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and...

Photographing Custer's Battlefield: The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen (book)

Photographing Custer's Battlefield: The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen (book)

$29.95

In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have combed the site of today’s Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for evidence that might...

Fossil Legends of the First Americans (book)

Fossil Legends of the First Americans (book)

$19.95

A pathbreaking account of how Indigenous Americans created rich mythologies to make sense of the fossil remains of dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the enormous and mysterious petrified bones of...

Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist (book)

Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist (book)

$18.95

New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives Matter and NoDAPL movements in the United States. These do not represent new demands for social...

children's book: my powerful hair

Children's Book: My Powerful Hair

$18.99

From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identityOur ancestors say our hair is our memories,our source of strength and...

Hunting by Stars: A Marrow Thieves Novel

Hunting by Stars: A Marrow Thieves Novel

$16.99

From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called “a revelatory must-read”A 2022 American Indian Library...

A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return (book)

A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return (book)

$18.95

An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into—and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same.In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was taken from her Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian...

The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains (book)

The Interior Borderlands: Regional Identity in the Midwest and Great Plains (book)

$15.00

Where does the Midwest end and the Great Plains begin? And does it matter? The authors of essays in this latest collection from the Center for Western Studies believe such questions are important to understanding how regional identity forms and...

Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands (book)

Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands (book)

$18.00

This book was originally published in May 1990 and was reprinted in August 2016. It's divided into three parts, each with a different emphasis and appeal to persons with varying experience and interests. The first part included information of a...

Old Trails and New Roads in South Dakota History (book)

Old Trails and New Roads in South Dakota History (book)

$18.00

Rhodes Professor of History at the University of Oxford Pekka Hämäläinen leads off this collection of new perspectives on South Dakota history with a stunning interpretation of Lakota power in the Northern Plains. With their mastery of the...

Bíilaachia-White Swan: Crow Warrior, Custer Scout, American Artist (book)

Bíilaachia-White Swan: Crow Warrior, Custer Scout, American Artist (book)

$49.95

The story of the Apsaalooke (Crow) men who scouted for the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1876 has been told by historians, with details sometimes distorted or fabricated. Biilaachia--better known as White Swan--survived the Battle of Little Bighorn...

The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law and the Judgement of History (book)

The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law and the Judgement of History (book)

$39.95

The U.S.-Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war's aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with...

Participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne, and United States Military Personnel (book)

Participants in the Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Biographical Dictionary of Sioux, Cheyenne, and United States Military Personnel (book)

$39.95

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dictionary of all known participants--the 7th Cavalry, civilians and Indians--provides a brief description of the...

Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus: Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) & Isandlwana (1879) - book

Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus: Parallels in the American and British Defeats at the Little Bighorn (1876) & Isandlwana (1879) - book

$35.00

In June 1876 the 7th U.S. Cavalry was savagely defeated at the Little Bighorn in the Montana wilderness during an attempt to seize Sioux and Cheyenne hunting grounds. Three years later redcoats mirrored this utter disaster with an equally high-handed...

Children's Book: Dawn Flight - A Lakota Story

Children's Book: Dawn Flight - A Lakota Story

$12.95

Long ago, when a great flood cleansed the land of unhappiness, the Grandfather sent Wanbli the eagle to save one virtuous member of the human race and teacher how to live a good life. The eagle is a powerful symbol of courage, wisdom, and strength...

Legends of the Mighty Sioux (book)

Legends of the Mighty Sioux (book)

$17.95

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas: The Ultimate Guide to the Night Sky

National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas: The Ultimate Guide to the Night Sky

$65.00

Combining science, exploration, and storytelling, National Geographic Stargazer's Atlas invites readers to roam the night sky for constellations, planets and moons, eclipses, comets and meteor showers, auroras, and deep-sky treasures including...

Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader (book)

Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader (book)

$21.95

Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815–79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the...