A local Indigenous rights nonprofit is trying to return to the Salish Sea a southern resident orca whale that was taken from the Puget Sound five decades ago.
“She was like three or four years old when she was separated from her mother [with] a pen, and then she made that long trip to Miami, was put in the world’s tiniest orca tank. They gave her the show name Lolita. Once we heard of the story, we knew that the thing to do was to bring her home.”
Kinley is adamant about the significance of Tokitae’s return as a kind of symbolic victory for conservation efforts to restore the southern resident orca whale population, even as critics could point to more urgently pressing issues facing the whales: the southern residents are listed under the Endangered Species Act and NOAA consistently reports that the endangered status of their native prey, wild Chinook salmon, has“It’s the first step in healing.
The reclamation effort has roots in the Lummi tribe’s history. Kinley notes that oral history recounts thematic messages of stewardship and conservation towards the orca, which makes Tokitae’s return more urgent for the Lummi.
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