Welcome to Summerhaven The National Geographic has an online article called 'uncontacted Tribes'' Today... uncontacted tribal peoples still live in isolation from the mainstream society of their country. All else about their lives is speculation. One thing is certain: the future of this uncontacted community depends on the protection of their lands.'today no one recognizes bigfoot or their relatives as a tribe, yet they are found in almost every continent and every county. This story is about borderline bigfoot, the many different people who have a range of hair and height and other features that fall between the cracks of how bigfoot is usually defined. They may be people who can 'pass' as normal and go into cities and towns. Often where a forest or desert area meets a modern towns, an overlapping area exists where regular people like us are able to know the existence of the borderline population. This often was the case in the 1800's to about the 1950's in mining towns or prospecting areas.From 2009 to 2012 I regularly visited a prospecting area in the Angeles National Forest and came to know some of these people. Some characters in the story are based on ones that I knew.The fictitious 'Mecante' group is a wealthy corporation dedicated to do things to prepare the 'clan' groups for their eventual 'coming out' and integration into modern society, but protect the primitive ones not ready for contact. Mecante also seeks out relatives of clan who went over to living 'white' decades ago both to offer a paid for college education, and to keep the dwindling gene pools of various groups together and healthy. The fictional Summerhaven is a town where some families still cover up their true lineages. The clan areas in the forest are populated with people who are very primitive. Others work at the college but due to their physical traits 'can't go into town'. Many in the story who come to get a degree find a mate and remain borderline involved. The work 'fuck' is used liberally in the story but not as a curse word, Summerhaven clan center has primitive ritual gatherings where tribes from far away come seeking mates who will provide the genetic diversity that their clan group needs to remain free of genetic defects. A formal deflowering ceremony is followed by three days when young people from clans that have traveled far to the gathering meet and decide to marry or not. Drin is a clan girl who in childhood meets Thom, a boy from a farm near the forest and gets him to agree to agree to bring his homework to a secret school where Drin and other clan children learn to write their names and some perhaps to read and write. At one point her older brother intends to sell her to a powerful old man as his chattel. After some years Thom is taken by his parents to live in the city. When he returns as an adult, he finds that what they did as children has spread and now most of the varied clan groups for 100 miles are able to write their names. Some exceptional people in the clans think of things to do that benefit their people and bring them into some aspects of modern life. Bevo, a man from a small race who reach maturity very early, pays older clansmen to do jobs that give them self respect. They get paid $3 a month and use it for tobacco and paint to make magic symbols on rocks that they forbid women to ever look at. We learn the rules clans have for things like courting, what you can do 'without blame', and who you can't kill. Drin's daughter Cicely chooses Ghee to deflower her because he the first young man she meets who is not related to her clan. We follow the courtships of several people who came to Summerhaven for college and find a mate with clan genes the night of Cicely's deflowering ceremony Summerhaven has a dark side. Decades old events related to a drug that a few rare clan lineages produced caused human trafficking in the females from clans who can make it, still affect people today.