The speaker asks us to think about what should happen when an important object was taken from a person or community without permission.
Questions you can ask your students: What would be fair to do? How can listening to the people connected to an object help us make respectful decisions?

Listening to the stories that connect people and objects helps us to understand the meaning of the objects.  In an earlier module, we were asked to consider questions of what something means to "us" and what something might mean to those who are "unlike us".  These kind of questions look at meaning from a point of view of social construction.  With students, we can try to explore the multiple meanings of objects and then think about the values behind those meanings.   In terms of reparations, one must consider the meaning and importance of objects to the original owners and the rightful heirs. Otherwise, there is no repair.