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The smaller peoples of the highlands
Beyond the large peoples, the Rhade, Jarai, Bahnar, Sedang, Mnong, Koho and Stieng, the highlands are home to a dozen smaller ones, some of only a few tens of thousands, whose names rarely appear in the record and whom the Vietnamese state files under larger names of its own choosing. This page gathers what the sources say about each of them, so...
Hunting, the crossbow and the forest
Every highland household farmed, and hunting was part of most men’s lives, with the crossbow as its mark; among the Bru, boys began to learn it at five or six. The forest gave meat, fish, fruit, medicine and poison, and our peoples knew it the way farmers know a field. This page sets down what the record says about how we hunted, fished and trap...
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