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

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This series tells the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California, and one woman’s grassroots mission to restore their living history to the land. As we reshare this series over the coming weeks, we’re adding a new fourth episode tracing recent developments in Theresa Harlan’s work, its impact on the community, and the ongoing challenge of creating space for Indigenous history. In Episode One, Theresa Harlan shares the story of her family's uprooting from Tomales Bay, which ended their time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa. Originally released on January 25, 2022. Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning everyone.
0:02.0	Welcome to the land of Tamalhuay, Coast Miwok people.
0:07.0	I am Teresa.
0:12.0	My blood is indigenous. It flows from Kiwa Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Hamas Pueblo from New Mexico.
0:20.0	I was born in San Francisco and raised from birth by my adopted Coast Mewalk mom.
0:26.6	Today is my mom's birthday.
0:29.6	Yeah.
0:31.6	She would have been 96 years if she lived.
0:35.6	But tomorrow the park turns 59 and the possibility of 20 more
0:41.7	years of ranching hangs over us my sister and I were raised on family stories of
0:48.0	life on the bay my mom loved to dig clams open them up wash them off in the bay and swallow them down she loved to dig clams, open them up, wash them off in the bay, and swallow them down.
0:56.0	She loved to pick wild strawberries. She loved to pick wild teas.
1:02.0	My mom prepared me for what my life might be as a dark-skinned, native child, and woman.
1:08.0	She would tell me, the bigger they are, the harder they'll fall.
1:19.1	In the 1950s, my family was evicted by ranchers, Lundgren and Turney. My uncle Big fought back.
1:28.8	He and his attorney, William Weissick,
1:31.1	had verbal testimony that the Felix family was here
1:35.1	before the ranchers.
1:36.6	They were here at a time when San Francisco was Yerba Buena.
1:41.9	The eviction ended our time at the cove, but it did not sever our connection to the bay.
1:49.1	Our ancestral home built by my Coast Mewaq great-grandfather and his brother waits for us,
1:55.9	waits for us to come home and bring our family voices and laughter.
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