While the killer whale best known as Lolita was alive, the Lummi Nation led a campaign to free her from the Miami Seaquarium and bring her home to her native waters of Washington state. The effort continues after the animal's death last week at an estimated age of 57.
"She was taken from her home and moved across the country," said Anthony Hillaire, chairman of the governing body for the Lummi people, the original inhabitants of Washington's northernmost coast, where theWhile at odds with the Seaquarium for years over the park's ownership of the orca the Lummi call Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, Hillaire said recent days seemed to bring consensus with park leadership on the animal's final steps.
"Tokitae's story needs to be heard and needs to be shared. It's the right thing to do," Jay Julius, then chairman of the Lummi Nation, said at the Miami event."We have much concern for the conditions she is kept in today."At the time, the Seaquarium opposed moving Lolita to natural waters.
That kind of a grisly option hasn't been discussed for Lolita, and it's a situation that would be blocked by county government, said Natalia Jaramillo, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's spokesperson."If that question came to us, the county would deny," she said. "Toki was an inspiration to all who had the fortune to hear her story and especially to the Lummi Nation that considered her family," the Seaquarium said."Those who have had the privilege to spend time with her will forever remember her beautiful spirit."The timing of transferring Lolita's remains uncertain. The office of one of Washington's U.S.
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