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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.

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,...

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls (novel)

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls (novel)

$17.99

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging...

Natural Leather Tanning (book)

Natural Leather Tanning (book)

$24.99

The processing of hides and skins is one of the oldest known crafts and cultural techniques. Today, tanning is done primarily with chemicals, but traditional tanning was done with fat, smoke, and plant extracts to make the hides durable and soft...

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History (book)

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History (book)

$18.00

The Truth behind the legend - from the voices of the Lakota The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's Last Stand", as it is also known, captured the American imagination. In the press coverage of the time and even today's history books,...

Warrior Girl Unearthed (Young Adult Novel)

Warrior Girl Unearthed (Young Adult Novel)

$19.99

Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing...

Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story (children's book)

Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story (children's book)

$18.99

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting Grandma and her cousin Juniper on the Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise...

A History of My Brief Body (book)

A History of My Brief Body (book)

$15.99

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize Mines - his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable...

We Belong to the Drum (children's book)

We Belong to the Drum (children's book)

$21.95

The drum represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth. We all belong to the earth and we all belong to the drum. Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he starts going to...

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (book)

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (book)

$35.00

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists...

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (book)

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (book)

$18.95

This bold and breathtaking speculative fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive...

Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge (book)

Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge (book)

$20.99

Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these, and countless other,...

The Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants (book)

The Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants (book)

$35.00

The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants is the one-stop compendium for all gardeners aspiring to use native prairie plants in their gardens. Neil Diboll and Hilary Cox—two renowned prairie gardeners—compile more than four...

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings (book)

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings (book)

$22.95

In Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Mary Siisip Geniusz makes Anishinaabe botanical information available to native and nonnative healers and educators and emphasizes the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge...

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...

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...