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Before 1800: free in the highlands
For longer than anyone has written history on this coast, the people of the highlands governed themselves. We cleared our own fields, forged our own iron, judged our own quarrels by a law recited from memory, traded down the rivers for salt and gongs, and made war and peace with one another without asking leave of any king. Three kingdoms on our...
The Kings of Fire and Water
The legend said they lived alone in seven towers on seven mountains, moved from one to the next each year, never saw a human face, and reigned seven years. A French officer went to find out, and in February 1891 he found the Master of Fire lying on a bamboo couch smoking a long copper pipe, among people who paid him no great deference. He carrie...
The Jarai
The Jarai are the largest of our peoples and the largest Chamic-speaking people on the mainland — larger than the Rhade, and far larger than the Cham themselves. Their country is the Pleiku plateau and the valleys falling away from it into the Ayun and the Ba, and it does not stop at the border: a fifth of Ratanakiri province in Cambodia is Jara...
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