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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.

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse (novel)

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse (novel)

$18.99

BACK IN STOCK! Through stories of Lakota leader Crazy Horse, a boy learns about his heritage and himself in this American Indian Youth Literature Award-winning novel from acclaimed author Joseph Marshall IIIJimmy McClean is a Lakota boy, though you...

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Stellaluna - Children's Book

$18.99

Knocked from her mother’s safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird’s nest. This adorable baby fruit bat’s world is literally turned upside down when she is adopted by the occupants of the nest and adapts to...

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The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting & Cooking Wild Rice & Other Wild Foods

$24.95

Explore the natural history, ecological contributions, and cultural significance of manoomin (wild rice), and savor complementary wild foods and local flavors with more than seventy-five inspired recipes, including favorites from over a dozen Indigenous...

The Marrow Thieves - Young Adult Novel

The Marrow Thieves - Young Adult Novel

$19.95

In a world nearly destroyed by global warming, the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream.Just when you think you...

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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (book)

$29.95

In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, "What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains?" Since humans arrived at the end of the Ice Age, plants played important roles as Native...

Voices from Haskell: Indian Students Between Two Worlds, 1884-1928 (book)

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...

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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

$9.99

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from...

Book - Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values Through Storytelling

Book - Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values Through Storytelling

$16.95

Through his retelling of traditional Native American stories, Joseph Bruchac offers readers a rich mix of American Indian history, culture and values. A diverse range of Native groups is included - Tlingit, Navajo, Cree, Abenaki, Yupik, Seminole, Sioux,...

Book - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Book - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

$15.99

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andres Resendez illuminates in his myth-shattering THE OTHER SLAVERY, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret.There was no abolitionist movement to...

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Book: From Warriors to Soldiers - A History of American Indian Service in the United States Military

$14.95

Within six months of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, seventy-five hundred American Indians enlisted in the military, and the numbers grey steadily. By war's end, at least twenty-five thousand American Indian men and women had...

Book: The Inconvenient Indian - A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Book: The Inconvenient Indian - A Curious Account of Native People in North America

$16.95

In "The Inconvenient Indian", Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact.Ranging freely across the centuries and the...

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Book: Visual/Language: The Ledger Drawings of Dwayne Wilcox

$40.00

The first book to feature Dwayne Wilcox’s incredible ledger drawings of Native life.Plains Indian ledger art grew out of the Native tradition of recording and chronicling through art important exploits by warriors and chiefs, among them images of...

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Book: Why We Serve - Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

$29.95

Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans...

Book: Wovoka and the Ghost Dance

Book: Wovoka and the Ghost Dance

$24.95

The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute named Wovoka (Jack Wilson). During a solar eclipse on New Year's day, 1889, Wovoka experienced a revelation that promised...

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Children's Book: Powwow Day

$17.99

In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and...

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Children's Book: The World is a Family

$17.99

Two foxes – one little, one grown – set out to explore the world. On the way, they discover the many qualities that they share with the animals all around them, as they rest and play, live, and love. This story is a touching and timely...

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Children's Book: You Hold Me Up

$19.95

This vibrant picture book, beautifully illustrated by celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions.Consultant, international speaker...

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe (book)

$50.00

Oscar Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern and embedded in customary Očhéthi Šakówiŋ...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (book)

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (book)

$22.95

What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers—or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and...

Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat (book)

Foraging the Mountain West: Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat (book)

$30.00

There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and...

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man - Book

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man - Book

$20.00

With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm.This book...

Hummingbird and the Little People book

Hummingbird and the Little People (Children's Book)

$11.95

This is the charming story of a young girl, Hummingbird (Nenookass), and her adventure one day in the woods. After chasing a squirrel, she became lost, only to find the helpful little people (memegwesiwag), who helped her get back home—with the...

Native American Twelve Days of Christmas (children's book)

Native American Twelve Days of Christmas (children's book)

$17.95

The beloved traditional English Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, has been adapted here to reflect aspects of the richly varied cultures and traditions of twelve Native American cultural groups from different parts of the U.S. A...

Seed to Plate - Soil to Sky: Modern Plant-based Recipes Using Native American Ingredients

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...