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Dayak: see Dyak Dyak or Dayak (both: dī`ăk) ..... Click the link for more information. . DayakAny member of a non-Muslim indigenous people of the southern and western interior of the island of Borneo. Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance but distinguishes the indigenous people from the largely Malay population of the coastal areas. Most Dayaks are riverine people who live in small longhouse communities. Children live with their parents until marriage, and boys, who usually seek brides outside their own village, go to live in their wife's community. Their subsistence economies rest on the shifting cultivation of hill rice, supplemented by fishing and hunting. They number more than two million. |
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Thus, for example, indigenous Dayaks in Kalimantan who were aggrieved by their marginal status attacked rival Madurese in 1996-97, "when Suharto's regime was nearing its end and a succession crisis was looming" and because riots elsewhere had already "shown the vulnerability of the state's repressive apparatus and opened up the horizon for political change" (p. The Earthquakes (2-1-4, 10 points) have been hit hard by injuries and are missing leading scorer Brian Ching, defenders Troy Dayak and Craig Waibal and midfielder Brian Mullan. The latest cross honors Mano Dayak, founder of the Temoust Liberation Front, who died in a plane crash in the Air Mountains in December 1995. |
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