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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...
A country of our own, 1946
Between 1946 and 1955 our country existed on paper. A French ordinance of May 27, 1946 took five highland provinces out of Annam and made them a territory of their own, with its seat at Buon Ma Thuot. In 1950 Bảo Đại took the territory as his personal Crown Domain, and in 1951 he signed a special statute for it: our chiefs and our courts kept, o...
The country itself
Our country is a stair of high plateaus behind the Annamite mountains, between about 500 and 1,500 meters above the sea: red basalt soil, forest, grassland and river valleys, from Kon Tum in the north to the Lam Vien plateau around Da Lat in the south. Its rivers run both ways, west to the Mekong and east to the sea. Its soil is why everyone who...
The first war in the highlands, 1946–1954
Between 1946 and 1954 France and the Viet Minh fought over our country, and both made our people the same offer: a country of our own, in return for soldiers. France gave the offer a name, a flag and two ordinances, and raised thirteen battalions of our men. The Viet Minh raised units of their own among us and promised autonomy. Our men fought o...
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