Native American Day & The 2015 Pow Wow
This month we are excited to celebrate Native American Day here in the great state of South Dakota. In 1989, the South Dakota legislature unanimously passed legislation proposed by Governor George S.…
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Paul Goble: Exhibition and Artist Reception
On October 9th, from 5-7pm, Prairie Edge will be hosting a final artist reception for this well known author and illustrator.Paul Goble has spent his life learning and sharing Native American stories…
Red Willow Bark: Can'sa'sa is back!
We've searched long and hard to come up with a good source for red willow bark, our local harvest did not pan out as the freeze did not work out for us. So, we received samples from various sources an…
Sweet Grass is Back!
Hello everyone: For about 10 days we were without sweetgrass and then our friends from Cree country came through with our yearly shipment.This years harvest was harder than before as the current west…
New Lakota Artist
Our Lakota artists and crafts people are always creating, going to shows and learning every year better ways to create art and keep their culture alive. It's sometimes hard for the new artist to break…
Sage is Back!
Prairie Sage (Artemisia spp) is known as a cleansing herb and is harvested in June. Its appearance marks one of the great seasonal ceremonial cycles for Northern Plains Indians.With each new day, we s…
Reshaw, the Life & Times of John Baptiste...
This morning, Donovin Sprague reviews a book about one of the largest families here in the Dakota area. So many folks came to the vast prairie to settle down and begin a family, Reshaw did just that.R…
Sage Harvesting Do's and Don'ts
On May 5, 2015, we had to make South Dakota sage a zero quantity on our web-site. We had a short growing season in 2014 and we knew we would probably run out of this very important botanical before th…
Earth Day 2015: What have we improved?
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign was galvanized in 1971 with the introduction of Iron Eyes Cody depicted as an Indian riding or walking through areas of illegal dumping, litter in the streets, pa…
Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers
This weeks book review by Donovin Sprague -Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers – Black Hawk’s Vision of the Lakota World...By: Janet Catherine BerloThis oversize book contains seventy-six ink and pencil pic…
Gifts of Pride & Love...
Gifts of Pride and Love - Kiowa and Comanche CradlesEdited by Barbara A. Hail. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000This book is part of a project by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthopology at Brown Unive…
On Our Way, 2015 Denver March Pow Wow
At 5:00 am, Michael, Nancy and Elizabeth pulled out of the drive way and went off to one of this years major Pow Wow events, the Denver March Pow Wow. This is our area's largest pow wow and it is our…