This paper argues there are complicating factors when determining our obligations to redress past injustice. With reference to the debate between political theorists Jeremy Waldron and Janna Thompson, a more nuanced view on historical obligations is argued. This paper concludes that in some cases our historical obligations can be transformed or even superseded by present day conditions. The citizens of many modern nations must come to terms with some measure of historical injustice. In particular, nations formed by European colonialism have a legacy of genocide, cultural submission, and misappropriation of territory that continue to resonate. A very valuable, but straightforward, task is to use normative judgments to condemn as unjust these...