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Who are the Dega
We are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Indochina: some thirty peoples, two unrelated language families, one plateau, and a single shared experience of what has been done to it. Almost every name the outside world knows us by was given to us by somebody else, and each one carries an argument about who we are and who has the rig...
Names and words
Reading about the Dega means reading four vocabularies at once, ours, the French, the Americans’ and the Vietnamese state’s, and they do not agree. Each outside name was given by someone at a particular moment for a particular purpose, and each still carries the purpose. This glossary gives the words you will meet in the records on this site: wh...
Frequently asked
The questions we are actually asked, including the hostile ones, which we would rather answer than leave to be answered for us.
Y Bham Enuol: president of FULRO, 1964 to 1968
He was president of FULRO for four years and three months, and in that time he fought two battles and held perhaps forty meetings. The record of those four years is not mainly a record of fighting. It is a record of letters carried across a border by couriers, of delegations kept waiting in Buon Ma Thuot, of demands that got smaller every year,...
The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the red basalt shelf around Buon Ma Thuot where the Krong Ana, the female river, joins the Krong No, the male river, and becomes the Srepok. They speak a Chamic language, cousin to Cham and more distantly to Malay. They count descent through women: a house belongs to its women, land belongs to a wo...
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