An orca captured from Puget Sound more than 50 years ago may be closer to coming home.

For years, members of Washington’s Lummi nation have been fighting for the orca’s release from a Miami aquarium where she’s been held since the early 70s.

Thursday, the owners of the Miami Seaquarium announced a "formal and binding agreement" with Friends of Lolita to begin the process of returning the Orca to Puget Sound. The release indicates that the joint effort is "working toward and hope the relocation will be possible in the next 18 to 24 months."

Born free in the Puget Sound, Tokitae, a Southern Resident orca, was just four years old when she was captured in the San Juan islands and sold to the Miami Seaquarium in 1971.

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