Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 4

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What does a place, a community, look like when it welcomes home Indigenous presence? Recorded in January 2025, this new fourth episode of “Coming Home to the Cove” explores the impact of Theresa Harlan’s work to protect, restore, and rematriate Felix Cove over the last three years—from widening community awareness of Coast Miwok history; to opening hearts to allyship between Indigenous and settler families; and running traditional ecological knowledge workshops. Amid ongoing vandalism of her ancestral home, rancher evictions, and new land management, Theresa continues to fight for a larger vision of healing, and asks, are we willing to come together to honor the entire story of a land? Photo courtesy of Hewitt Visuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you mind looking at the map again and seeing if we could sort of figure a couple of places
0:08.5	that I've always known there were some houses in, but now to get oriented, here's the
0:14.1	bay, go in this direction, and here's Marshall over here, and here's Laird's Landing. Sacramento Landing is where you said that the Pensodis.
0:24.6	My godfather lived in Pinsodis.
0:26.6	And that was during the time that you were living here, that he was living here?
0:31.6	Yeah.
0:32.6	Oh, yeah.
0:33.6	And was it the next cove here where you say your older sister lived for a while?
0:37.5	Yeah. Yeah. There are two little coves here. There's a big eucalyptus tree, right, in this little cove. That might be where your aunt was. Eucalyptus tree. And then over here there's a whole bunch of big trees. Well, my aunt, that's where my aunt used to live. There was a whole grove of trees. there's no well.
0:56.1	Oh, her father's no well.
0:56.1	Oh.
0:57.0	Her father built the well all out of rock.
1:00.3	A nice, nice well.
1:02.2	I don't know whether it's still there or not.
1:04.8	And then you go further north, and you come to this pelican point,
1:08.4	which was where Clarence Pensote told me he was born.
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.9	Yeah.
1:13.9	That's right across from Hamlet.
1:15.9	Did you go to Hamlet much?
1:17.9	No.
1:18.9	No.
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