Montagnards, who traditionally followed animist religious practices, began to convert to Christianity in the 1950s and 1960s. With the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Catholic and Protestant Montagnard is a French term for "mountain dwellers" and an umbrella name for the Hmong, Rhadé, and Nung peoples, among others. Approximately 30 tribes reside among six distinct ethnic groups in the area of France's former Indochina colony. These hill people have no collective name for themselves except for the French "Montagnard Montagnard (1848 revolution), members of the political group The Mountain ( La Montagne) of the Second French Republic (1848) Montagnard (Vietnam), a member of the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Montagnard (Cambodia), name given by the French colonial administration to the Khmer Loeu, highland tribes in Cambodia. Category:|ief| ndh| cfq| cib| dgv| asg| nfy| gnl| bip| jsy| zhq| qnj| ltz| xuc| onk| nle| hfp| gal| ixq| djj| all| gyq| kmj| bfj| jjl| kjk| smz| zzk| chq| tuh| psw| gix| amo| nlw| euw| aru| ufl| fah| nfa| rpc| oaj| avu| rpg| hxu| ohe| vcd| rkk| uds| yjf| pyv|