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As the discussion over statues of historical figures heats up in the Bay Area, some residents in Marin County have "Sir Francis Drake" in their crosshairs - both the naming of the major boulevard and the 30-foot tall statue with that namesake near the Larkspur Ferry Terminal.
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"My sculpture is of an event, the event of an explorer coming to our shores," Patton explained.
"Where’s the Miwok representation, where’s our name, we need to have more of a presence here in Marin County," Vidauri said. "We need to be known instead of honoring somebody who was here less than a month. He was a murderer slash slave owner, murderer."
The Coast Miwok inhabited Marin and southern Sonoma Counties before Europeans settled here.
The City of Larkspur has decided to form a group to look into a possible renaming. The statue was reportedly vandalized following a protest Wednesday night over the controversial name.