Valeria Vergara: A mother’s grief, a population on the brink

Vancouver Sun
Valeria Vergara
2025 02 03

Tahlequah is grieving. Hour after hour, day after day, she clings to the lifeless body of her newborn. She carries her calf through the cold waters of the Salish Sea, lifting it to the surface again and again, as if willing it to breathe.