V knigu vhodjat pervye dva romana iz prikljuchencheskoj trilogii «Synov'ja Bol'shoj Medvedicy», posvjashhennye bor'be indejcev Severnoj Ameriki za svoi prava i svobodu. V pervom romane rasskazyvaetsja o detstve glavnogo geroja Harki - syna vozhdja, vo vtorom - on sam stanovit'sja vozhdem plemeni, kotoroe jarostno soprotivljaetsja zahvatchikam.
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901 - 1979) was a German historian and author.
Her main fields of interest were ancient Greece and the Native Americans. She wrote a series of novels called Die Söhne der großen Bärin ("The Sons of the Great She-Bear").