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Before 1800: free in the highlands
For more than two thousand years before the nineteenth century the Dega governed themselves in the highlands. We farmed, hunted, traded, judged our own disputes and worshipped as we chose. Three neighbouring monarchies dealt with our ritual authorities as with a power worth propitiating. That is the baseline against which everything since should...
The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missions
Four arrivals over a thousand years, each of which moved the Dega further from the sea, and a fifth — the missions — which moved nobody but changed everything by writing us down. This is the sequence as our records hold it, with the dates the outside chronicles give.
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