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Archives and collections
Where the evidence of our history is kept: the archives of the governments and armies that dealt with us, the mission libraries, the museums that hold our objects, the sound archives that hold our music, and the community organizations that keep what the institutions did not. Most can be searched online; many documents are free.
The Kon Tum mission, 1851
On January 1, 1851, a French priest reached a Bahnar village called Kon Phar, having walked in from the coast. The mission that followed produced the first written form of any of our languages, the first dictionary, the first school, and the first outside description of who lived in the highlands and where. It is the beginning of the written rec...
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