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In Vietnam, the Jarai people has suffered under restrictions of religious parties, making that some of them preferred to emigrate. In the 1950s and 1960s the Montagnard Degar movement gained popularity among the Jarai and their Montagnard brethren (Degar is a Rhade word meaning "sons of the mountain").
Sam Bram distributed magic water (Jarai: la Iun) to his followers, and preached about how the expulsion of white people and Vietnamese from the highlands would fulfill a Biblical prophecy. [22] The new faith spread quickly to Kontum, Quảng Nam , Quảng Ngãi, and to Rhade recruits of the French garrison of Buôn Ma Thuột . [ 16 ]
Jarai people resisted and defeated the French colonizers in 1894, but later were conquered by a large column of French troops in January 1897. [5] The Master of Fire killed a French Prosper Marie Patrice Odend'hal [6] in 1904. [7] Soon they were attacked by a French army led by Vincillionni, the Master of Fire had to flee.
Kok Ksor (Jarai: Ksor Kok, born 1945 in Gia Lai Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, died in USA on 9 January 2019), was a member of the Jarai ethnic group and the President of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc., an organization, begun as an RSO at the University of Chicago, which states that its mission is to preserve the lives, rights and culture of the Montagnard people.
Japanese people in Vietnam; Jarai people; Jeh-Tariang people; K. Kam people; Kam–Sui peoples; Katu people; Katuic peoples; Kayan people (Myanmar) Kháng people ...
Jarai (/ dʒ ə ˈ r aɪ /; Vietnamese: Cho-Rai, Chor, Chrai, Djarai, Gia-Rai, Gio-Rai, Jorai or Mthur; Khmer: ចារ៉ាយ, Charay) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Jarai people of Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Pleiku is a city in central Vietnam, located in the Central Highlands region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province.Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or Degar, although now it is inhabited primarily by the Kinh ethnic group.