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The slave raids
From at least the eighteenth century until the French arrived, the highlands were a hunting ground for people. Highlanders were seized in raids, carried down to the markets of the Mekong and sold in Cambodia, Siam, Laos and the Vietnamese south. The trade shaped where villages stood and how they were built, it gave the lowland peoples their word...
The elephants of Bản Đôn
For more than a century the village of Bản Đôn, on the Srêpôk river west of Buôn Ma Thuột, was known across mainland Southeast Asia for one thing: the men there caught wild elephants and tamed them. The hunters were Mnong, Lao, Jarai and Rhade; the most famous of them was honored by the King of Siam. Today the tame elephants are few and old, and...
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