‘Everything is one’: The healing power of orphan orca whale Kwiisahi?is’ escape

For five weeks, Ashley John stayed away while her community was immersed in the drama surrounding a trapped, orphan killer whale calf.As an active member of the Ehattesaht First Nation band council, Ms. Jones’s detachment was unusual. Her community hosted the large and complex effort to save the young female whale, which had become stuck in a lagoon near the village of Zeballos after its mother had died from being stranded on a sandbar. Ms. John said she couldn’t bear to see the orca, young enough to still be nursing, in distress.