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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...
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
French rule came to our villages as a tax to pay in cash and days of unpaid work on roads. The roads carried soldiers, officials and, later, the plantations onto our land. More than once, the work itself set off a revolt.
The Stieng (Xtiêng)
The Stieng live at the south-western edge of the highlands, where the plateau falls toward the plains north of Saigon, in today’s Bình Phước and across the border in Cambodia. Their red soils were taken for French rubber plantations, and they rose against both French and Vietnamese settlement repeatedly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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