# Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases

The role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil rights and justice. In this context, the presentation reflects on two path-breaking cases of recent public memorialization: the Moiwana Massacre, which took place in the Republic of Suriname, South America and the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: American Folklife Center
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689834/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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