Tribe Scribe

Every Monday Morning our in-house historian and author reviews a book from our book and music store, this week Donovin reviewed the book "Black Elk Lives – Conversations with the Black Elk Family."The…

It feels like a "fresh start" every January 1, we get the whole year to see what new things we can bring to the store, we prepare ourselves for up-coming events and take one moment to reflect on the p…

125 Years Later: Wounded Knee. Today marks the 125th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre (December 29, 1890). Old and young, men, women and children were killed without mercy. Some say it was rev…

Every year I think this out loud "Let's get ready to rumble!", which is a bit much for a kids tournament event but the excitement is still the same, good games, great sportsmanship, the best competiti…

Aww December, for retailers (and that includes the Sioux Trading Post) it is the big event of the season, for the rest of us it is about planning for family and friends to visit and gift giving, meal…

240 Years and counting!On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia passed a resolution stating that "two Battalions of Marines be raised" for service as landing force…

November has been named "National American Indian Heritage Month" since 1990 and has been renewed every year since 1994 by a presidential proclamation. Our country has come together to recognize the F…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…