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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.

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Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement (Native American Activism Book)

$24.95

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline It is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline...

The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories

The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories

$19.95

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man. Suddenly, a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the hattakfullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who...

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...

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (book)

$29.99

It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their...

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...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (book)

$26.99

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds,...

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...

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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf

$25.99

Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim...

Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills (children's book)

Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills (children's book)

$19.99

Billy Mills was once an orphan on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. But before his father was called to the ancestors, he told Billy how to conquer his suffering: You have broken wings, son. You have to dig deeper, below the anger, the...

Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Book - Young Reader's Edition

Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Book - Young Reader's Edition

$15.99

This book is adapted for young readers and general readers. It cuts though non-Indian expansionist rhetoric to provide the reader with an American Indian perspective of the conquest of the trans-Mississippi West during the last four decades of the...

1876 Facts About Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn Book

1876 Facts About Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn Book

$13.00

"1876 FACTS ABOUT CUSTER is impressive, Jerry Russell's full-length effort is a gold mine of myths, legends and contemporary accounts of the most famous massacre in history, all presented in an original style. Especially welcome is the inclusion of an...

550 Dakota Verbs Book

550 Dakota Verbs Book

$24.95

This book provides students of Dakota, Lakota and Nakota dialects the proper conjugations for 550 verbs. It features clear explanations of Dakota conjugation patterns, as well as extensive Dakota-Engish and English-Dakota work lists.

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A Grammar of Lakota: The Language of the Teton Sioux Indians (book)

$32.00

Note about the book from Dan:Fr. Eugene Buechel spent his life in service to the Lord. He studied the Lakota people here in South Dakota for many of those years both at St. Francis on the Rosebud reservation and then later at the Holy Rosary Mission on...

Book - 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

Book - 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

$17.00

In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the teepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young...

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Book - Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball 1895-1970

$24.95

Indian basketball was born of hard times and hard places, its evolution traceable back to the boarding schools—or “Indian schools”—of the early twentieth century. Davies describes the ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of...

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Book - The First Code Talkers: Native American Communications in World War I

$34.95

Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War II—but little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than...

Book - The Sioux

Book - The Sioux

$24.95

This book presents Sioux life as it was in the years of its greatest vigor – 1830 to 1870. It traces the origins of the Sioux and brings them up to the present day, explaining the author’s opinion of why this tribe has not been assimilated...

Book - Tribal Laws, Treaties and Government: A Lakota Perspective

Book - Tribal Laws, Treaties and Government: A Lakota Perspective

$13.95

Oglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, "The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it."Initially the method of taking Indian land was through treaties, a legitimate and acceptable agreement...

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Book - We Are Not a Vanishing People: The Society of American Indians, 1911-1923

$35.00

In 1911, a group of Native American intellectuals and activists joined together to establish the Society of American Indians (SAI), an organization by Indians for Indians. It was the first such nationwide organization dedicated to reform. They used a...

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Book: Native American Buffalo Robes: A Study of their Role in Plains Indian Societies and a Guide to Traditional Tanning Techniques

$25.90

This book illustrates the role which buffalo robes played within Plains Indian societies of the 18th and 19th century. It presents a one-of-a-kind documentation of the almost inexhaustible amount of different uses Native people made of tanned...

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Book: The New American Herbal

$27.50

With more than 900 entries, each accompanied by brand new photography and helpful growing advice, The New American Herbal takes the study of herbs to an exciting new level. Orr covers the entire spectrum of herbaceous plants, from culinary to...

Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold

Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold (book)

$45.00

“The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States,” Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the...

For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook

For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook

$19.95

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...