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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.

Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

$35.00

Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the diversity of plant foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important. The...

A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

$41.99

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the...

The Wolf and the Crow

The Wolf and the Crow

$26.99

Prominent Redoubt County rancher Hal Lamar and retired Smokey River Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency Superintendent William Black Spotted Horse could not be more different. Forced to travel to a different continent to cooperate in a daring rescue mission...

The Last Prisoner of the Little Bighorn

The Last Prisoner of the Little Bighorn

$26.99

It falls to university professor Dr. Gavin Lone Wolf to protect and preserve his family's surprising legacy and to solve a murder on South Dakota's Smokey River Indian Reservation. Set within the framework of the historical Battle of the Little Bighorn...

The Gift of the Great Buffalo

The Gift of the Great Buffalo

$18.99

Before there was a little house on the prairie, there was a tipi on the prairie. Rose is a young Métis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Métis families. The ritual...

The Ones Who Got Away: Stories

The Ones Who Got Away: Stories

$24.99

Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut,...

Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal too Disappear

Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal too Disappear

$24.95

In the second volume of The Great Vanishing Act, voices from Indian Country convey the insidious impacts of the Indian Reorganization Act confronting the existential and pragmatic questions facing many Native Nations to determine who is—and...

Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr.

Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr.

$35.00

Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than...

The Canoe: A Living Tradition

The Canoe: A Living Tradition

$39.95

The canoe was essential to the early exploration of North America. Today, it is a vital link to the natural environment and vast wilderness, still widely used for recreation, transportation and sport. The Canoe is the definitive history of the...

The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2nd Edition)

The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2nd Edition)

$48.99

Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native Peoples in retaining their own worldviews, from the pre-Columbian era into the twenty-first century. The book explores the ways in which Indian...

Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches

Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches

$40.00

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, cultural history, archaeology, and...

Zegaajimo: Indigenous Horror Fiction

Zegaajimo: Indigenous Horror Fiction

$23.00

You never know what's hunting you, while you're hunting it... Eleven of the deadliest writers from across Turtle Island have crafted stories for you calculated to chill, thrill, and kindle your worst imaginings. Zegaajimo brings together tales...

Out of Print Book: Horsehair Bridles - A Unique American Folk Art

Out of Print Book: Horsehair Bridles - A Unique American Folk Art

$100.00

This book traces the origins of the folk art of hitching horsehair, and how it flourished in the prisons of the west between 1890 and 1930. In this large format book with about 500 stunning images, the reader will learn to identify the distinct styles of...

Out of Print Book: American Indian Horse Masks

Out of Print Book: American Indian Horse Masks

$100.00

This is a large, colorful book which includes 45 historic Indian horse masks from museums and private collections. Most date from the 19th century. Scores of other masks are illustrated by 18th and 19th century Indian paintings and drawings on rock,...

I Am On Indigenous Land

I Am On Indigenous Land

$18.99

With simple, lyrical text and vibrant panoramic illustrations, this picture book explores the beauty and resources of thirteen ancestral Indigenous lands and how we all use those lands each day. Simple poetry and portrayals of children and families...

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...

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

$19.00

We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking...

Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military & Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars (New Edition)

Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military & Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars (New Edition)

$24.95

As the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict. The integral roles these forts played during decades of warfare with the...

An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger

An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger

$29.95

In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Brigade as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position...

Missing Momma

Missing Momma

$18.99

Momma wears combat boots, a camouflage jacket, and a “U.S. Army” tag on her chest. She fights for her country’s military but she also fights for her family. When Momma comes home from a long deployment, however, something...

The Bearer of This Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community

The Bearer of This Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community

$50.00

The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the...

My Indian Boyhood (New Edition)

My Indian Boyhood (New Edition)

$16.95

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as...

Venco: A Novel

Venco: A Novel

$19.99

Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she’ll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible...

It's Powwow Time!

It's Powwow Time!

$19.99

This lyrical and joyful picture book celebrates new experiences and community traditions when a young boy learns to dance at his first powwow. It’s Powwow Time! is for readers of Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Jingle Dancer and...