Sunday, December 23, 2018

An original tribe isolated from the world for 60,000 years。

North Sentina, located in the Andaman Islands of the Bay of Bengal, is a remote island that refuses to contact the outside world. It is estimated that the indigenous tribes on the island have lived there for 60,000 years. Their dark skin and short stature are the last few on earth to refuse contact with the outside world. The Sentina people who live here live on hunting and do not seem to have developed any form of agriculture. Their food includes fruits, nuts, potatoes, fish, wild boar, honey and seagull eggs or turtle eggs. Their language is very different from other languages ​​in the archipelago. There is no natural port on the island, surrounded by coral reefs, which keep visitors away and lock themselves in. Their rudimentary boats can only travel on a calm lake.NASA's satellite image shows that North Sentina is about the same size as Manhattan.



After the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami, the Indian government sent a helicopter to inspect the disasters of these primitive tribes. While passing through North Sentinel Island, a tribal man ran on the beach while shooting arrows at the helicopter. They guarded their own isolated life with vigilance. Anyone who landed on the island may encounter the arrows of the indigenous people.
In 1880, Morris, an executive of British India? Maurice Portman led a group of people on the island for the first known trip to the island. After a few days of exploration, Portman and his team captured six indigenous people (two adults and four children) and took them to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman Islands. However, this action ended in tragedy as two indigenous people died of the disease. They sent the remaining four orphans back to the island and gave them a lot of gifts, which was a compensation for their loss of family.





After the 1960s, all efforts to engage with the Sentina people did not yield anything. In 1974, a documentary film crew was attacked and his director's thigh was shot by an arrow. Similar things happen from time to time. After many years of trying and sending a lot of gifts to the indigenous people, In 1991, the outside world was able to make first friendly contacts with the locals. However, local people died as a result of exposure to diseases not found on the common islands, and similar efforts to reach out to other Aboriginal people in the islands, including contact with the Great Andaman and Galois, ended in tragedy. As a result, some groups have called for no forced contact with the Sentina. The government abandoned plans to contact locals in 1996 and established a three-mile quarantine that prohibits visitors from waiting. This small island has not been invaded by modern civilization for centuries. In the 1980s and 1990s, the wrecked ships that visited these islands clashed with locals and killed many tribal islanders.

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