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More than 50 years ago, Tokitae was captured in Washington’s Puget Sound — one of several orcas shipped to theme parks around the world. Since then, she’s been kept as a performer in a small tank at Miami Seaquarium under the name “Lolita.”

She’s the second-oldest orca to still be living captivity. But now, finally, efforts by the Lummi Indian Tribe and other advocates to have her returned home to Puget Sound appear to have succeeded.

It’s been a long fight, and one that’s not over yet.

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