Everything We Know About the World's Most Isolated Tribe

To be fair, if they have been in that island for 60000 years, that means they must have survived an unimaginable amount of tsumanis and other natural disasters

The Sentinelese after the earthquakes: how could this have happened? a helicopter starts flying by with people aboard waving down at them IT WAS YOU!!!

Little did that Sentinelese boy gazing at the stars know, that a mid 30 guys, on the other side of the planet is watching this item on his tribe on a device and platform with possibilities even for us hard to grasp at times, as fast as technology is growing. The thought of that makes me gazing at the skies too.

As an Indian, I kinda agree with this rule of leaving the Sentinelese alone. When it comes to Indigenous cultures, we kinda resonate with their beliefs because we follow sorta similar cultures. This reminds me of the Pintupi Nine in Western Australia. They were among the last uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Australia before they were spotted in the desert in the early 1980s.

They are the ultimate "get off my lawn you damn kids" of the world.

The more you think about it... The more it seems that that sentinel island situation is pretty much a microcosm of how the rest of us would react to alien visitors.

The Indian government acted correctly in banning all visitors to the island. These people have the right to remain Isolation from the rest of the world and live their own life. They are extremely vulnerable and have no resistance to common illnesses. If people were allowed to visit Sentil then the inevitable would happen. The island would eventually get ruined by tourism or prospectors would come looking for valuable things such as gold, silver, diamonds etc etc. I expect if this were the case then the native people would be forced to mine the stuff and be shamelessly exploited. No, these islanders should definitely be left in peace.

It makes me stupidly happy that there are still wild people in the world, long may they remain so!

Even if Chau hadn’t been killed outright, what made him think he would have successfully converted anyone on the island? They wouldn’t have understood each other anyway.

"Social distancing? We got this." -The Sentinelese.

I bet stories of the last contact is why they're soo fiercely protected. Can't blame them.

This got me thinking about the sheer amount of history that will forever be lost. The tribe arrived on this island via boats thousands of years ago and have never left. Makes me wonder what that tribe was like before arriving here, and how much of their advancements like sea travel were lost, or what was gained afterwards.

Bet these people have never been offered extensions on their auto warranties.

It was actually a different group that was friendly, that’s why people get so confused about why sometimes they were hostile and sometimes friendly. They’re different people

This is all we need to know about these people. They clearly want to be left alone.

Also if I remember reading correctly the missionary wasn't killed right away they tried to scare him off multiple times by shooting arrows near him but not at him it wasn't until he got to close and wouldn't go away I thought that's what some fishermen witness but I could be wrong

John Allen Chau actually went on the island a number of times over a few days. He wrote a diary, and the fishermen you saw him being buried were hired by him to take him to the island. He paid them to get him close then look a boat to shore, and the diary he left shows he was very aware that what he was doing could end in death. More messed up is the missionary group he worked for praised him as a martyr while his dad cursed them for convincing his young son to go toward his untimely death.

I’m surprised their isolated gene pool hasn’t caused more issues for them.

John Chau not only broke numerous laws in his attempt to convert these people, after being sent packing with a broken canoe and arrow wounds, HE WENT BACK. The natives made it clear they didn't want him there, forced him to leave with non-critical wounds, and he continued to flaunt both the laws of India and the rules of hospitality in the hopes of converting them. And it got him dead. It could have been worse smh