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N’Trang Lơng and the Mnong resistance
For twenty-one years, from the burning of a French post in May 1912 to the arrival of the army’s road in 1933, the Mnong of the Plateau des Herbes, the grass hills where Cambodia, Cochinchina and Annam met, held the French out of their country. Their leader was Pa Trang Loeung, whom the Vietnamese write N’Trang Lơng: a koragn, a village mediator...
Roads, taxes and forced labor, 1899–1945
In 1899 the tribute our villages had paid every three years in wax, horn and ivory was abolished and replaced by a tax in cash, on people who did not use cash. Three years later came the days: ten a year of unpaid work on the roads, rising to fifteen, and eight to ten more spent walking to the worksite and back. A man who could not find the mone...
The Stieng (Xtiêng)
The Stieng live at the southwestern edge of the highlands, where the plateau falls toward the plains north of Saigon: in what was Phuoc Long and Binh Long, then Song Be, then Binh Phuoc, and across the border in Kratie and Mondulkiri. They were the first of our peoples a European lived among and wrote about, in 1859, and among the last the Frenc...
The bracelet
A ring of brass or copper on the wrist is one of the oldest bonds among our peoples. It settles an engagement and ends one; it pays the midwife and the broker; it is heated in coals and dropped into a jar of blood and rice beer so that men who should be enemies can drink and be bound. In 1964, on the morning of a mutiny, a Rhade shaman put three...
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