The Churu (or Chru) people are a Chams related ethnic group living mainly in Lâm Đồng, and Bình Thuận provinces of Central Vietnam.

Amid constant wars with Khmer Empire and Đại Việt, the Cham aristocracy carried out exploiting their fellow laborers very badly.

They forced the laborers to go deep into the forest to find ivory, rhino horn or go down to the river panning gold to tribute.

[3]: 193–195 Encouraged by Touneh Hàn Đăng, the Churu adopted some economic innovations from the Chams in the fields of weaving, pottery, and plowing in 1907.

They often build dams by using soil, stones, and wood to block a stream or a tributary to store and actively water irrigation.

[2]: 26 The Churu people catch fish in several ways, one of which is pounding the roots of trees with poisonous resins and mixing them with spring water.

[2]: 94–95 [1] Islam began to be recorded as having been spread to the Churu people in the highlands during the Katip Sumat uprising in 1833 to early 1834.

Upon his return from Kelantan, he spread Islam to the Churu and Jarai peoples and recruited them to participate in the Jihad movement against Đại Việt.