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
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