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Before 1800: free in the highlands
For more than two thousand years before the nineteenth century the Dega governed themselves in the highlands. We farmed, hunted, traded, judged our own disputes and worshipped as we chose. Three neighbouring monarchies dealt with our ritual authorities as with a power worth propitiating. That is the baseline against which everything since should...
A country of our own, 1946
On 27 May 1946 the French High Commissioner created by decree a government for the Montagnard people of southern Indochina, over a territory with defined borders. Within four years the same lands had been handed to a Vietnamese king without our being asked, and within nine they had been absorbed by force into a republic. All three documents stil...
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