Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan

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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 1

A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land

by Emergence Magazine

Length: 48 min.

Place: Coast Miwok

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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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Coming Home to the Cove

This series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home and one woman’s effort to bring the living history of her family back to the land.

an Emergence Magazine production

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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 2

Episode Two traces thousands of years of Indigenous presence and history and asks: Who gets to define history?

by Emergence Magazine

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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 3

In this final episode, Theresa Harlan continues her grassroots efforts to protect the last standing structures on Tomales Bay built by Coast Miwoks.

by Emergence Magazine

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Film Silent Crescendo

Meet artist Slobodan Dan Paich, who creates simple drawings with tea and ink in a daily ritual.

by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

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Lesson Plans

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