Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich

was born in 1901 in Munich, Germany. She lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and World War II. She was active in the resistance against Nazi terror and helped her future husband escape from Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In East Berlin she became professor of ancient history at Humboldt University and the first woman elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences.

From 1963 to 1974 she traveled to the Lakota. In 1965 the Oglala gave her the name Lakota-Tashina. She was a friend to many Lakota and a trusted ally of the American Indian Movement until her death in 1979.

Her novels Die Söhne der Großen Bärin and Das Blut des Adlers retell US history centered on Lakota heroes. Global bestsellers, they carried the fight of the Lakota to many millions of readers.