The last few years have been a shared traumatic experience on a global scale. The COVID-19 Pandemic was similar to the 1918 Flu Pandemic in terms of local and global responses to deal with rapid infection and death. However, the 1918 Flu Pandemic had been forgotten on a global scale, with little to no literature, art, or oral histories commemorating this intense shared experience. Forgetting trauma is a common psychological response. One role of the archaeologist is to discover long-forgotten things. In this paper, I will explore how the trauma of colonialism in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia has been forcefully erased to promote forgetting. The Banda Islands were one of the first places colonized by Europeans in Island Southeast Asia in their pursuit for control of the Spice Trade and the local population was eradicated, expelled, or enslaved. Five hundred years later, the modern population is a mix of internal migrants from the Suharto-era transmigration program and more recent economic migrants who have numerically overwhelmed the descendants of the enslaved workers of the nutmeg plantations. While some profit from the tourist desire to see the historic plantations, the majority of the material cultural of the Colonial System has been allowed to fall into ruin or has been actively destroyed. Similar to the re-use of Egyptian pyramids or Roman temples as a quarry for building material, the erasure and destruction of exploitative overlords after the collapse of a political system is commonplace. I will argue that the purposeful forgetting of Colonial trauma is integral to creating a modern, forward-looking society in the Banda Islands.