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Books about the Dega
A reading list for anyone who wants to understand the Dega properly, our own young people above all: the books and articles we trust, what each is good for, and where it can be read. Many are free online, and the older ones are in our own library.
How many Dega there are
There are more of us than there have ever been, and we have never been so small a part of our own country. The state’s own census counted about 768,000 people in the thirteen highland peoples in 1979 and about 2,125,000 in 2019 — almost a trebling in forty years. Over the same span the population of the four highland provinces went from 1.2 mill...
Theses and academic studies
A guide to the doctoral and master’s theses and the academic studies written about our peoples and the highlands, in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and in the communities we built abroad. It is for students, researchers and anyone who wants to go deeper than this library can. Every item was checked against a thesis register, a library catalog, the p...
Highlanders on the other side
Not all of our people fought beside the Americans. Some went with the Viet Minh against the French, took the boat north in 1954, and came back down the trail as cadres of the National Liberation Front. A Rhade leader of BAJARAKA became a vice-president of the Front. Across the border, a Jarai boy from Ratanakiri became Pol Pot’s bodyguard, while...
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