Theresa Harlan’s Fight to Protect the Last Coast Miwok Structures on Tomales Bay

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Spanish missions, boarding schools, and ranching empires in California drove many Coast Miwok people from their ancestral land, targeting the erasure of their history and identity.

This three-part series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their home and one woman’s determination to bring the living history of her family back to the land. In Episode Three, Theresa Harlan continues her grassroots efforts to protect the last standing Coast Miwok structures on Tomales Bay, as their fate is being deliberated by the Point Reyes National Seashore.

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