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Our veterans in America
Sixty-one thousand of our men fought beside the Americans between 1961 and 1975, by the count the United States Senate itself uses. The United States brought some of the survivors to North Carolina in 1986 and 1992 because of that service, and has twice passed resolutions honoring it. It has never counted one of them as a veteran. This page sets...
Beyond North Carolina: Canada and other countries
Most of us who were resettled went to the United States, and a smaller number to Canada. But the second country to take us was not Canada. It was Finland, in May 2005, a month before the first flight to Vancouver, and about seventy-five of our people went there. Nobody has written a word about them in twenty-one years. That is the shape of every...
Highland women in the war, 1954–1975
In 1966 the United States Army published a handbook that told its own personnel, in one identical line repeated for nineteen of our peoples, to stay away from our women. The same book recorded that in Darlac six or seven of every ten of our babies died before their first birthday, and that Rhade law puts the land in the women’s keeping. A year l...
Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age
A Dega child was born beside the hearth in some of our peoples and in the forest in others, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders remarked on in every village they visited but one. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands,...
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