January 2018 Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Everyone!Prairie Edge and Sioux Trading Post want to wish everyone a safe and prosperous 2018. We are getting everything wrapped up from 2017 and are now making our plans for this year.…
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Prairie Edge Events and Mother's Day
May 6th is our 2017 Open House event. We are excited to show off the many new products we are carrying this season and many of the "tried and true" items such as Star Quilts, Pendleton blankets, Filso…
What's Happening at Prairie Edge/Sioux Trading Post?
It's was another successful Small Business Saturday but instead of resting on our laurels we are staying prepared for all of your holiday shopping needs.Our FineArt Gallery is hosting the Artist of th…
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…
Happy 2015! It's a New Year...
Happy New Year everyone!We have some really great work from our multi talented artists and this piece is exceptional. Over the years, we have learned to listen to the artist when they bring in a piece…
Arts - Beadwork & Quillwork
At Black Hills State University one of the classes I teach is Traditional Lakota Arts which includes learning basic techniques of beadwork, quillwork, and featherwork. If you are involved in the arts…
Beadwork Techniques of the Native Americans: Book Review
Beadwork Techniques of the Native AmericansBy: Scott Sutton. Crazy Crow Trading Post 2008.This book shows techniques of four styles of beadwork including loom, two needle applique’, peyote or gourd s…
Visiting Our Friends in Northern Cheyenne and Crow Country
This month we are planning our trip to Montana to visit our friends at Northern Cheyenne and Crow country on April 25th - 27th. This is our annual trek and we look forward to a good visit and great p…
Beading How To: Crow Stitch
Good Morning, everybody! Here we are in the Black Hills on this beautiful October day. I'm Michael from the Sioux Trading Post and I'm going to show you how to do another beadwork stitch called the Cr…
Artist Kevin Fast Horse Debuts His First Mountain Lion Robe
When we think of Lakota art or decorated animal robes from this area, we typically think of buffalo, deer, or elk, but the other day artist Kevin Fast Horse amazed us with his latest (and very unique)…
Beading How To: Applique Stitch
In our final Beading How To for the month, Michael demonstrates the Applique Stitch and shares a few tips to make nice, consistent stitches, help mark your place (its amazingly easy to loose your p…
Beading How To: Edge Beading
Michael demonstrates Edge Beading…[he begins by showing a few examples of finished pieces with beaded edges and gives some detail about some unique edge beading he used on one of his bags]. On this…