Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 1

Across the United States, Indigenous communities are calling for
sweeping revisions to stories commonly told as “history”—stories
that, even today, neglect and erase Indigenous peoples and serve as
justification for continued ownership of stolen Indigenous lands.
This three-part series is the multigenerational story of a Coast
Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern
California and one woman’s mission to bring the living history of
her family back to the land. Throughout this series, Theresa Harlan
chronicles the story of her family’s displacement from their
homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay and shares her grassroots
efforts to involve the wider community in protecting both the
history and the future of this place. As she tells her family's
story, Theresa makes a powerful claim: remembering and retelling
inclusive histories has the power to create a more just future. In
this series we ask: Who gets to define history? In what ways is it
our responsibility to ensure that a shared history is an accurate
and just representation of the places we call home?  In
Episode 1, Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok
family’s eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay—an
uprooting which ended her family’s time there but did not sever
their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa.
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