HARKA is a six-novel series set on Native American lands across the Great Plains from 1862 to 1877. It follows Harka, an eleven-year-old Oglala Lakota boy, who grows up as gold prospectors, settlers, and the U.S. government kill his people and steal his people's lands. Harka sees that Native nations must stand together — or be swept aside — and fights to hold on to the Lakota way of life.

First published in 1951 as Sons of The Great Bear and in print ever since, the series has been translated into eighteen languages and sold more than eight million copies worldwide. UNESCO in 1963 named it "one of the best YA novels in the world."

Its author, German historian Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, spent years in friendship and shared struggle with Lakota families, Native American activists, and leaders of the American Indian Movement.
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Harka is a bridge between peoples, not a stand-in for Native-told stories. Our aim is to carry forward the spirit of the work by standing alongside Native voices in the telling of history.
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Now, for the first time, Harka is being brought into English through books, graphic novels, film, and television.