Northsentinelisland.com Website Review

JA*ASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Please enable Ja*aScript on your browser to best view this site. In a world of rapid urbanization, we often as*ume there are no tribes left isolated without external contact on Earth. But the Sentinelese people who inhabit the tiny island of North Sentinel that is part of the Andaman group of islands in the Bay of They rejected all types of communication with outsiders repeatedly and they protect their land violently when anybody wants to establish This violent response is part of a pattern of violence that has marked most attempts at contact by outsiders with this tribe over the Believed to number anywhere from 50 to 400, the Sentinelese have lived in isolation on the island for 60,000 years, resisting attempts by authorities and anthropologists to study their culture and integrate them into the modern world. And when someone wanders to their island, like it happened for two fishermen on January 26, 2006, they relentlessly murder them. So protective are the Sentinelese of their territory that an Indian coastguard helicopter that attempted to retrieve the fishermen’s bodies (they had been tossed into shallow beach graves after their killing) was greeted by a volley of arrows from the tribesmen that While the current policy tries to preserve their culture, it was not always like that and other tribes from the Andaman Islands faced The Great Andamanese tribes, who numbered several thousand in the 18th century, were decimated by the Crown colonialists and currently less Their diet consists mainly of coconuts and fish that can be found in the shallow waters around their shores. Based on observational data, they are hunter-gatherers, as agriculture is not known to them. Their meat consists of turtles and small birds found on the North Sentinel Initially thought to have been badly affected by the tsunami on Christmas 2004, it was soon revealed that the islanders had moved to higher ground before disaster struck – almost as if they knew the giant tidal wave was coming. Inhabitants of nearby islands were