Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan

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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 1

A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land
Length: 48 min.
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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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