Native American Books | Native American Music | Prairie Edge Trading

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.

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...

The Grass Dancer

The Grass Dancer

$18.00

Set on a North Dakota reservation, The Grass Dancer reveals the harsh price of unfulfilled longings and the healing power of mystery and hope. Rich with drama and infused with the magic of the everyday, it takes readers on a journey through...

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...

The Treasure: A Story About Finding Joy In Unexpected Places

The Treasure: A Story About Finding Joy In Unexpected Places

$18.99

Once, at the top of a cold, dark mountain, there was an old wooden chest. In the chest, there was a treasure so special that it cold make dreams come true. Or so it was said…Join Hare as she sets off on a quest to discover the chest -...

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...

Prairie Dweller 1000 Special Shaped Jigsaw Puzzle

Prairie Dweller 1000 Special Shaped Jigsaw Puzzle

$18.95

This is a round 500 piece jigsaw puzzle by artist John Stewart features a colorful dragonfly against a flower background. Dimension: 19.5 inches (round finished size) *measurements are approximate*

Hidden Garden Beauty 500 Piece Round Jigsaw Puzzle

Hidden Garden Beauty 500 Piece Round Jigsaw Puzzle

$16.99

This is a round 500 piece jigsaw puzzle by artist John Stewart features a colorful dragonfly against a dainty flower background. Dimensions: 19.5 inches (round finished size) *measurements are approximate*

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

$30.00

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story. Thus begins Keith Richotte's playful,...

Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Army Wage War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877

Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Army Wage War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877

$19.95

Lasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this grueling war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields scattered across five...

The Other Side of Perfect

The Other Side of Perfect

$18.99

Two kids, two worlds. One unexpected friendship. Cody is a smart kid - a survivor with a great sense of humor. But Cody’s home life is a messy too-often terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy...

The History They Tell: Oral History from Native American and First Nations People Regarding the Battle of the Little Bighorn cover

The History They Tell: Oral History from Native American and First Nations People Regarding the Battle of the Little Bighorn

$24.99

Little has been done to compile a complete, in-depth oral history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from the descendants of the Native American and First Nations people who fought there on June 25th, 1876. Until now. With the help and guidance of...

My People the Sioux (New Edition)

My People the Sioux (New Edition)

$18.95

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging an veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian...