In a dream; what does it mean when people are looking for DNA of their dead relatives to apply to themselves?

Question

It was like people had distorted faces and wanted to be able to reconstruct them, but didn't know what they were supposed to look like. This seemed to be brought on by killers targeting those who had this information. As they investigated this thing they were able to get some of their face back. The charges laid on the killers seemed to be the worst of all charges.

Answer 1

This sounds like it is about a group of people who have lost the knowledge of their heritage and culture trying to find out about the past so they can reclaim what is theirs.

I've been reading a lot about various North American Indian peoples and how their culture was ripped away from them by the government and now they even really know what the beliefs, practices and traditions of their ancestors were.  They have bits and pieces and try to embrace their history, but they feel like displaced persons who don't really know who they are.  

The "killers" being "charged" are the governments who took advantage of them, and the "leaders" among their own people who gave away their lands and treaties in exchange for material things and privileges.  

This has probably happened many times in history.  For instance, when England took over Scotland and Ireland, there were chiefs among the Scots and Irish who bartered  with the English, selling their own people for power and privilege.  Then the English sent teachers from England to teach in the schools, and forbade the children to speak their native languages.  People are trying today to find anyone who still has knowledge of the Gaelic languages to transcribe, record and preserve, as it has almost died out completely.

This is basically what happened to the natives of the North American continent as well.

You know, I think in our culture today, MOST of us are in some sense a disenfranchised people.  We have been absorbed into modern, mainstream culture, we're all losing our accents, and our distinct traditions and way of thinking.  Television has a LOT to do with this.   Someday, everyone will speak "gentle American," the accentless voice of the ideal weather man!