Based on long term ethnographic work with the Saamaka, and with the benefit of hindsight, this paper unpacks the specific ways in which the descendants of these Suriname Maroons have constructed and transmitted the historical knowledge of their 18th-century ancestors, who escaped slave plantations and confronted the colonial powers from their new settlements in the depth of the forest. In the process, they created an original memory of these historical events—First-Time or Fesiten knowledge—and managed to keep it alive. The article explores the specific ontology, frames and idioms of this historical knowledge, as well as its ideological role, the (dis)connections to hegemonic colonial memory devices, its evolution in time, the ways of transmission, and the memory specialists that have kept and circulated it.

基于与萨马卡（Saamaka）进行的长期人种学研究，并借助后见之明，本文揭示了苏里南栗色后代的后代构造和传播其18世纪祖先的历史知识的具体方式，这些祖先曾逃离奴隶种植园和他们在森林深处的新定居点面对殖民势力。在此过程中，他们创建了这些历史事件的原始记忆-首次或Fesiten知识，并设法使其保持活力。本文探讨了这一历史知识的特定本体论，框架和成语，以及其意识形态作用，与霸权殖民记忆装置的（解除）联系，其时间演变，传播方式以及保持记忆的专家并分发。