Summer Rain: Getsikahvda Anitsalagi

Welcome to the life of a young Cherokee girl named Rain, as she grows into maturity just as the Trail of tears begins. This journey begins in Georgia in a typical Cherokee village in the early 1800s, where a young girl and her best friend realize there are strangers poised to take their land and home away from the Cherokee and from neighboring tribes. The girls witness the birth of the new written language of Tsalagi in the year 1821 and the printing press in the year 1827. The Cherokee Nation's growth is also financial, and would mark the first newspaper to ever be printed and circulated by a Native American tribe. Rain falls in love with a white boy and is forced to follow either her heart and save her own life - or to remain loyal to her family, knowing that in doing so, she could lose not only her true love, but her very life as well. Summer Rain: Getsikahvda Anitsalagi (The Removal of the People) taps into a very sad part of American history and is an unforgettable story.