A country of our own, 1946Between 1946 and 1955 our country existed on paper.
The Kon Tum mission, 1851In the last weeks of 1850 a French priest of twenty-five, guided in by a…
The French arrive, 1876–1929We let the French in.
Before 1800: free in the highlandsFor longer than anyone has written history on this coast, the people of the…
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missionsThree powers came to the edge of the highlands before the French, and each left…
Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggleIn September 1992 two journalists walked into the forest of Mondulkiri, in…
Asylum today: Cambodia, Thailand, and the reach of the stateFor twenty-five years the way out of the highlands has been west, on foot into…
North CarolinaThe largest community of our people outside Vietnam is in North Carolina, in…
The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005The border between Vietnam and Cambodia runs through the middle of one people.
The wider diasporaNorth Carolina holds the largest community of our people outside Vietnam, but…
Reports and documentsThe human rights record of our people since 1975 is written mainly in reports…
Archives and collectionsMost of the written evidence of our history is kept by the governments, armies…
Books about the DegaA reading list for anyone who wants to understand the Dega properly, our own…
Theses and academic studiesA guide to the doctoral and master’s theses and the academic studies written…
Language resourcesOur languages are the part of our inheritance most at risk and the easiest to…
Timeline: 875 to todayThe Dega story in one place, from the Cham kingdom on the coast to the…
Names and wordsReading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once, ours, the…
What we do not knowEvery page in this library carries its sources and says where it is thin.
The prisoner records: what they are and how to search themOur records hold 337 Dega by name, men and one woman imprisoned for their…
Reporting an incident to DCHOHow to bring something to us, what we do with it, where it can go, and what we…
What Vietnam signed, and what happens in the highlandsVietnam has ratified the major human rights treaties, voted for the Declaration…
Indigenous rights at the United Nations, and why the word mattersInternational law offers a people in our position two bodies of rights.
What the Dega ask forThree aims, rooted in FULRO’s first declarations of 1964 and 1965 and set down…
Land law and customary landIn Vietnam nobody owns land.
What the United Nations has saidOur people have been named in United Nations documents for more than thirty…
How many Dega there areThere are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small…
Who are the DegaWe are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Indochina: some…
The tribes and their languagesAround thirty peoples, in two language families that are not related to one…
The country itselfOur country is a stair of high plateaus behind the Annamite mountains, between…
Dega cultureA village, the land around it held in common, kinship that decides obligation…
Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followedAt about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men…
The church they closedMost of us are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our…
The land, and what was planted on itVietnam went from a marginal coffee producer to the second largest in the world…
How we diedHundreds of thousands of our people were killed in wars fought across our land…
February 2001: the highlands stand upOn Friday, February 2, 2001, eight hundred people from four communes walked out…
FULRO, 1964–1992On the night of September 19, 1964, the strike forces of four American-trained…
BAJARAKA, 1958BAJARAKA is four peoples in one word: BAhnar, JArai, RAde, KAho.
Mike Force, SOG and the special operations warFrom 1964 the Americans stopped asking our men to guard their own villages and…
Dak Son, December 5, 1967On the night of December 5, 1967, Viet Cong troops with flamethrowers burned a…
Paul Nưr and Nay Luett: the ministry yearsTwo men who tried the other route.Meetings, services and gatherings: where to be and when.
Dega Day falls on September 20 each year: a day of remembrance, of gratitude, and of unity. This year the community gathers on Saturday, September 19 in Greensboro, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
Please join us to pray for the people of Ukraine today. Pray for peace and the laying down of weapons. Pray for all those who fear for tomorrow, that your Spirit of comfort would draw near to them. Pray for those with power over war or peace, for wisdom, discernment and compassion to guide their decisions. Above all, we pray for all the precious children, at risk and in fear, that you would hold and protect them.
Congress is the highest decision-making body of the Dega Central Highland Organization. At the congress, the guidelines and proposals are determined. It is the board (which is elected at the congress) that decides on the most important issues.
Y-Wang Rmah was one of the members of the Dega Central Highlands Organization. He passed away of a large stroke. We are grieving to hear this information from the family.
This meeting is for Dega Central Highland Organization members to get the updates from the organization. We also discuss about new member enrollment, congress members, supporter application, and plans for the year 2022.
We are having a meeting in Charlotte to gathering our members to hear a flashback on what we have accomplished this year and to discuss about the year to come.
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