Joe Toscano talking on the importance of memory for continuing the resistance of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner. The impotance of a plaque at this site at the Victoria Markets indicating it is the burial place for these two indigenous freedom fighters who were judicially executed on January 20, 1842, against the wishes of a jury which requested mercy be shown given the circumstances of the case. Colonial authorites showed no mercy.
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