Netse Mot: Support Lummi Nation and Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea) 2nd Call for Support: Bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home! JUUstice Washington has signed . . . Board of Trustees of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship has signed . . . Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship’s Social and Environmental Justice Committee has signed . . . Have you? We are being called…
Netse Mot 2021-Call to bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home 2021 will focus on the return of Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) to the Pacific Northwest from Miami Seaquarim in Florida. In the 1970s Southern Resident Orca youth were forcibly and violently taken from their pods and shipped out to aquariums and parks all over the world. Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) was taken…
Special Alert! A request on behalf of Deb Cruz, JUUstice Washington’s President It’s long been since time . . . Bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home! A sacred request from Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris) and Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley) “Our Lhaq’temish [Lummi] people have had a special relationship with our killer whales since time immemorial. We know them as qwe’lhol’mechen,…
Something is wrong at Miami Seaquarium.. They have been keeping an orca who doesn’t belong to them for over 50 years. A produce salesman turned vegan activist fights for over a decade on the street corner in front of Miami Seaquarium, turning away thousands of cars. A new legal fight launches in 2020 headed by…
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – Many believe that Lolita, the whale that the Lummi Nation knows as Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, is finally getting a much-needed break as the Miami Seaquarium has been closed to visitors since March because of COVID-19. This is the longest she’s gone without performing and Thursday marked 50 years to the day that a…
