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N’Trang Lơng and the Mnong resistance
For more than twenty years, from 1912 to 1935, the Mnong of the upper Chhlong river held the French out of their country. Their leader was N’Trang Lơng, a Mnong koragn — a man of knowledge and a mediator, not a hereditary chief. His people killed the explorer Henri Maître, destroyed French posts, stopped a colonial road, and governed themselves...
The Mnong (Bunong)
The Mnong live on both sides of the border: in Đắk Nông and southern Đắk Lắk in Vietnam, and in Mondulkiri in Cambodia, where they call themselves Bunong and are the largest of the province’s indigenous peoples. They are the people of Condominas’s We Have Eaten the Forest, of the elephant hunters of Bản Đôn, and of N’Trang Lơng’s resistance of m...
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