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A Khmer village meeting. The Khmers are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the area, having filtered into Southeast Asia around the same time as the Mon.Most archaeologists and linguists, and other specialists like Sinologists and crop experts, believe they arrived no later than 2000 BCE (over four thousand years ago) bringing with them the practice of agriculture and in particular the ...
The Bunong (alternatively Phnong, [2] Punong, or Pnong) [3] [4] is an indigenous ethnic group in Cambodia. They are found primarily in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri in Cambodia. The Bunong is the largest indigenous highland ethnic group in Cambodia. They have their language called Bunong, which belongs to Bahnaric branch of Austroasiatic languages.
The Pear or Por (Khmer: ព័រ), also known as the Samre, are an ethnic group indigenous to western Cambodia. They reside in Preah Vihear province (Rovieng District), and Battambang province (Samlout District), with the majority living in Pursat province, specifically in Phnum Kravanh district and Veal Veng district. In Phnum Kravanh, their ...
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The Khmers are considered by archaeologists and ethnologists to be indigenous to the contiguous regions of Isan, southern Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam. That is to say the Cambodians have historically been a lowland people who lived close to one of the tributaries of the Mekong River .
There have never been any treaties between a Khmer Loeu group and the government nor is Cambodia a signatory to the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention. [2] Cambodia's landmark 2001 land law guarantees indigenous peoples communal rights to their traditional lands, [2] but the government is accused of routinely violating those provisions ...
This is a list of indigenous rights organizations.Some of these organizations are members of other organizations listed in this article. Sometimes local organizations associated with particular groups of indigenous people will join in a regional or national organization, which in turn can join an even higher organization, along with other member supraorganizations.
The Tampuan (also spelled Tompuan'”Tompoun” or “Om Poun” called in their own language or Tampuon, Tumpoun', Khmer: ទំពួន) are an indigenous ethnic group living in northeast Cambodia. Numbering about 31,000, the Tampuan people live in the mountainous Southern and Western portions of the Cambodian province of Ratanakiri.