The Elephant Herders of Vietnamese Plateau | SLICE

The Mnongs, an ethnic group from the Vietnam high plateaux, are still using the same unique and spectacular method for capturing wild elephants, as their ancestors did long ago.
These men, on the back of already trained elephants, set out in pursuit of young wild elephants in the deep forest. The hunt will last several days until, after a fierce struggle, they rope in a young male, using a sacred lasso made out of buffalo leather.
Upon returning to the village, the young elephant receives a three month training. Afterwards, there is a large ceremony, and he is welcomed as a full fledged member of the village community.
During his life, Macoun has caught more than 300 elephants. He has previously kept his knowledge a secret. But now he is teaching Issan how to capture elephants, without offending the geniuses of the forest.
Documentary: The Last Ivory Knight
Directed by: Jérôme Segur, Jean Queyrat
Production: ZED
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[@EliteFeelings]

Once upon a time in Vietnam, there are plenty of elephants. Their number is so abundant that it seems like there are much more than us humans on this land. Those elephants used to live with us and share our work in daily activities, to be our close friends and family members. They and we have gone through many wars against foreign invaders to protect the land of the Vietnamese people for thousands of years. In everyday life, elephants are sincere, gentle, and very affectionate friends with the Vietnamese people, but on the battlefield, elephants are undefeated, brave warriors and are never afraid of dying before enemies, those who came to occupy land and harm their Vietnamese relatives. Elephants are a symbol of strength, indomitable courage and solidarity of Vietnamese people. But sadly, today the number of elephants can only be counted on the fingers of hands. If only we could see their numbers restored to the way they were in the past, seeing thousands of herds of elephants running wild throughout the forests from north to south of this country of Vietnam.

[@SLICEDocumentary]

It's up to us to restore their habitat so they can return!

[@comfortablynumb9342]

My uncle fought next to these people in Vietnam. He was a Green Beret and they teamed up with the indigenous people because they were fighting the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. He has some amazing stories about fighting huge battles with them at night against the NVA, and also about eating their food and living with them in camp and the jungle on patrol. They fought hard. Thank goodness they have peace now. It's interesting to see them pounding rice and stuff like the people in Central America still do traditionally. It's too bad they don't get to live their traditional ways anymore.

[@garfield2742]

You mean hmong?

[@comfortablynumb9342]

@@garfield2742 he called them Montanyards, which I'm not spelling correctly.

[@garfield2742]

@@comfortablynumb9342 montagnard are several ethnics that lived in high ground lands.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

@@garfield2742 I know. He told me about being on a hilltop base and the NVA attacking at night. They came in waves. The 'Yard's families were there. Women and kids loaded magazines. Sappers came. It was ugly and he said they fought very hard. He always spoke of them with respect.

[@Frankd22003]

That’s why the Hmong was expelled from Vietnam. 😂

[@tomjohnson5191]

I want to know was the crazy person who said let’s capture an elephant and this is the way we will do it. lol

[@bobbynguyen9921]

How old is this documentary? There are not many wild elephants left in Vietnam so I doubt the government would allow people to hunt or capture them

[@silasdavid9588]

Such a life of freedom for this locals

[@GizzyDillespee]

Please list the years during which the documentaries were made or first published, for future repostings. I appreciate that you compile them here, and I understand that some people might not watch unless they assume it's "new", but do those people really read to the bottom of the description?

[@Frankd22003]

These tribal people are lucky that the Vietnamese allowed them to remain in the country, especially the Hmong who fought the Vietnamese on the side of the American. In other countries, who sided with the enemy wouldn’t even be allowed to exist. The Vietnamese is noble.

[@anamzabrul1807]

Don't worry have a 😂chicken curry 😋

[@Scorpio747]

that bushes🤐🤐

[@AungThit-w7p]

နှာခေါင်းတို --- နားရွက်တို လူတွေက ကြီးတဲ့သူတွေကို လုပ်နိုင်တယ်နော်။

[@DeerheartStudioArts]

I resent the blurring out of bodies! It’s 2023!

[@มารวยเดชฤทธิ์]

เบื่อคลิดเดิมๆ

[@7777PEACEMAKER]

I caught a big fish but it got away lol