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Dega women, and a record written about men
Among the Rhade, the Jarai, the Mnong, the Koho and the Raglai, the house, the land, the livestock and the heirloom jars pass through women. Yet almost every source this library is built from is about men, because soldiers, prisoners and petitioners are who got written down. This page sets out what the record can establish about what our women h...
The schools, and the language they are not taught in
In a century and a half our children have been taught in our languages for only a few short stretches: by the Kon Tum missionaries, in the French schools of Darlac, in the Protestant mission schools, and in a bilingual program the Republic of Vietnam ran with American money in its last years. Every government since 1955 has in the end made the c...
The Franco-Rhade school and the Collège Sabatier
Thirty boys from the villages around Buon Ma Thuot were put into a French school in 1915. Attendance was not voluntary; within a few years some of them walked home, and the paramount chief who defended them was accused of inciting disobedience. Out of that school came a written Rhade language, a class of clerks and teachers, and, a generation la...
Schools, language and the university gap
Our children start school in a language they do not speak, under a rule that is written in no decree: Vietnamese only in the classroom. Primary school nearly works. By fifteen the system has lost half of them. A Rhade teacher will pretend not to understand a Rhade child who asks him a question, because that is what he has been told to do, and a...
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