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Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy isn’t a

person, court rules

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Hap-
py the elephant may be intel-
ligent and deserving of com-
passion, but she cannot be
considered a person being il-
legally confined to the Bronx
Zoo, New York’s top court
ruled Tuesday.
Salmo 27:4
Un kos so mi a roga The 5-2 decision by the state
Señor, esei so mi ta Court of Appeals comes in a
anhela, cu mi por biba closely watched case that tested
den cas di Señor tur dia di mi bida. Pa mi the boundaries of applying hu-
por contempla splendor di Señor i bishita su man rights to animals.
Tempel. The zoo and its supporters
warned that a win for advocates
Cu inmenso tristesa na nos curason, pero at the Nonhuman Rights Project
conforme cu boluntad di Dios nos ta anuncia could open the door to more le-
fayecimento di: gal actions on behalf of animals, zoo “would have an enormous Jenny Rivera, wrote separate,
including pets, farm animals and destabilizing impact on modern sharply worded dissents saying
Sra. Luisa Muller-Maduro other species in zoos. society,” read the majority deci- the fact that Happy is an animal
Viuda di †Eddy Muller The court’s majority echoed that sion. “Indeed, followed to its does not prevent her from hav-
*25-08-1931 - † 08-06-2022 point. logical conclusion, such a deter- ing legal rights. Rivera wrote
The decision written by Chief mination would call into ques- that Happy is being held in “an
Na nomber di su: Judge Janet DiFiore said that tion the very premises under- environment that is unnatural to
“while no one disputes that ele- lying pet ownership, the use of her and that does not allow her
Rumannan: phants are intelligent beings de- service animals, and the enlist- to live her life.”
Marie Croes serving of proper care and com- ment of animals in other forms “Her captivity is inherently un-
Emilio & Ana Maduro passion,” a writ of habeas corpus of work,” read the decision. just and inhumane. It is an af-
Linda de Castro is intended to protect the liberty The Bronx Zoo argued Happy is front to a civilized society, and
Betty & Francisco Tromp of human beings and does not neither illegally imprisoned nor every day she remains a captive
Yvonne Maduro apply to a nonhuman animal like a person, but a well-cared-for — a spectacle for humans —
Glenda Maduro Happy. elephant “respected as the mag- we, too, are diminished,” Rivera
Tanta: Dolorita Ras The decision affirms a lower nificent creature she is.” wrote.
Tur su sobrino- & sobrinanan, primo- & court decision and means Hap- The advocates at the Nonhu- The ruling from New York’s
primanan py will not be released through man Rights Project argued that highest court cannot be ap-
a habeas corpus proceeding, Happy is an autonomous, cogni- pealed. The Nonhuman Rights
Ta invita pa acto di despedida diaranzon 15 di which is a way for people to tively complex elephant worthy Project has failed to prevail in
di Juni 2022 di 9or pa 11or di mainta na Aurora challenge illegal confinement. of the right reserved in law for similar cases, including those in-
Funeral Home, sigui pa cremacion cu lo wordo Granting that right to Happy to “a person.” volving a chimpanzee in upstate
teni den seno familiar. challenge her confinement at a Two judges, Rowan Wilson and New York named Tommy.

Un danki special ta bay na personal di Huize
Maristella, seccion Aloe.
Native children’s

remains to be moved

from Army cemetery

icy — their hair cut and their clothing, language
and culture stripped. More than 10,000 children
Laga tur loke ta spera mi ta bunita from more than 140 tribes passed through the
Laga tur locual cu mi encontra na caminda school between 1879 and 1918, including famous
ta bunita Olympian Jim Thorpe. “If you survived this expe-
Laga tur locual mi laga atras ta bunita y rience and were able to go back home, you were
Laga esakinan termina den buniteza CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For more than a a stranger. You couldn’t even speak the language
century they were buried far from home, in your parents spoke,” said Rae Skenandore, of the
Cu inmenso tristeza den nos curason a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. She is a relative of
nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: Army War College. Now they’re heading Paul Wheelock, one of the children whose re-
home. mains will be disinterred.
The off-reservation government boarding schools
The Army began disinterring the remains of eight — Carlisle was the first, with 24 more that fol-
Native American children who died at a govern- lowed — “ripped apart tribes and communities
ment-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, and families,” said Skenandore, adding she lost
with the children’s closest living relatives poised to part of her own culture and language as a result. “I
take custody. don’t know if we can ever forgive.”
The disinterment process, which began over the She and her mother, 83-year-old Loretta Webster,
weekend, is the fifth at Carlisle since 2017. More plan to make the trip to Carlisle later this month.
than 20 sets of Native remains were transferred to Webster said her own father ran away from a simi-
family members in earlier rounds. lar boarding school in Wisconsin when he was 12.
Ronald Evereth Marugg The children had lived at the Carlisle Indian In- “It was like a a prison camp, what they were put-
*16-06-1932 - † 12-06-2022 dustrial School, where thousands of Native chil- ting these little kids in,” Webster said. “It’s a part of
dren were taken from their families and forced to our history that’s really traumatic and still affects
acto di despedida lo wordo anuncia despues assimilate to white society as a matter of U.S. pol- the community today.”