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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 3

A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land
Length: 64 min.
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Spanish missions, boarding schools, and ranching empires drove many Coast Miwok people from their ancestral land in Northern California, targeting the erasure of their history and identity. In this final episode, Theresa Harlan continues her grassroots efforts to protect the last standing structures on Tomales Bay built by Coast Miwoks.

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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.

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Coming Home to the Cove - Episode 1

In Episode One, Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay.

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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?

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