Howard Garrett (Orca Network) remembering the southern resident orca Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and his nearly thirty year fight to bring Toki home to the Salish Sea.
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Howard Garrett (Orca Network) remembering the southern resident orca Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and his nearly thirty year fight to bring Toki home to the Salish Sea. "Toki's legacy is building, building, building by the day... She wasn't just a circus animal. She was a member of the southern residents." Shownotes: 0:00 The voice of Toki. 4:57 How Howard started fighting to bring Toki home 7:50 "I really feel like she would have thrived and been thrilled and so relieved to be in her familiar waters." 14:16 A superpod wake for Toki? 15:55 The Lummi Nation's fight for Toki. 20:05  The origins of Toki's names and becoming Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut. 21:44 "Her tank violated the very dismal standard of the animal welfare act..." 30:15 Getting the news that she was gone. 34:00 Toki's legacy. 43:00 Toki speaks. Skaana podcasts connect you to news and experts and their discussions about environments, oceans, and orcas. * Join the Pod......https://www.patreon.com/mobydoll * Subscribe to the Skaana newsletter: https://substack.com/@skaanapod?utm_source=profile-page  * Spotify...............www.bit.ly/spotify-skaana * Apple Podcasts.........www.skaana.ca * The Orca Bites Podcast (on anchor).........www.orcabites.com - * Skaana home......www.skaana.org * Skaana on Medium......www.orcatales.com * Our Latest Orca Videos...www.jpod.news - * Facebook............https://www.facebook.com/skaanapod/ * Twitter...............https://twitter.com/leirenyoung * Instagram............https://www.instagram.com/skaanapod/ Howard Garrett at a marine conference in Vancouver in 2017 Support Our Guest * Official Website Orca Network: https://www.orcanetwork.org/ * Instagram: untillolitaishome * Twitter or X or whatever: https://twitter.com/Salishorcas * Toki TV: https://www.youtube.com/@TokiTV2022   * Howard Garrett meeting Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young in happier times at a conference in 2017 in Vancouver. A story by Mark about Toki in The Times Colonist: Comment: Remembering Tokitae: The last southern resident orca in captivity Books for sale and Classes from Team Skaana **Amazon links are affiliate links and support our podcast, thanks for clicking!** *  Audio books by Mark Leiren-Young (Killer Whale Who Changed the World, Orcas Everywhere & Never Shoot a Stampede Queen) on Audible.com https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Mark+Leiren-Young * The Killer Whale Who Changed the World… http://amzn.to/2pRNU1q * Orcas Everywhere; Orcas of the Salish Sea & Big Whales,
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