Rena Priest does an effective job in her story, drawing parallels between captive orcas and missing and murdered Indigenous women (“A captive orca and a chance for our redemption,” April 2020). Fifty years on, how do we justify the conditions Tokitae lives in, let alone the fact of her captivity itself?

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