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[Diablos]

A quick Google revealed nothing more than the same paragraph about this particular tribe. Perhaps theirs more information, but after the first five sites, I gave up. Especially since parts of those paragraphs made mention that no one knows anything about them. There's no photograph of the inside of their dwellings, for example.

wtf

Go into their territory with the military heavily armored and see what the hell is in there. Spears won't do shit.

 

[Captain Awesome and OLD]

Mud crabs are serious business.

 

[pollo]

A quick Google revealed nothing more than the same paragraph about this particular tribe. Perhaps theirs more information, but after the first five sites, I gave up. Especially since parts of those paragraphs made mention that no one knows anything about them. There's no photograph of the inside of their dwellings, for example.

Like the last part of the report says, the Sentinelese remain as probably the only secluded tribe in the world. It's an anthropologists wet dream. Even National Geographic visited the Sentenilese back in 1974 to do a future called "Man in Search of Man" to document themselves winning over the savages with gifts, but that ultimately ended when Sentenilese shot one of the film directors in the left thigh with an arrow. :lol

Just leave them the fuck alone. Like those animals in New Guinea. I dont care if those fuckers are going to be able to cure cancer, let alone lead us to a better understanding of evolution. Leave them be. Shit.

Heres more info on Sentinelese btw:

6. The Sentineli

It was very rare in the 20th and is quite unique in the 21st century for the representatives of a sovereign government to wade ashore on a small tropical island in order to place cheap baubles on the beach, only to withdraw again in some haste, dodging arrows from natives lurking in the bushes.

Most would connect such a scene with the Age of Discovery, with Columbus, Vasco da Gama or Captain Cook. When, moreover, visiting near-royalty is prevented from landing by a lone warrior on the beach, the story must surely come from the realms of fantasy. Not so. For precisely this scene took place in 1974. The island so difficult to approach for royalty and commoner alike is North Sentinel island. Ex-king Leopold III of Belgium, attended by the chief administrator of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, in that year made an unsuccessful attempt to land there. The royal party was faced down by a lone warrior armed with bow and arrow and clad in nothing but a scowl and a few personal decorative items.

Indian exploratory parties under orders to establish "friendly relations" with the islanders have made brief landings on the islands every few years since 1967. Unencumbered by security worries for a royal dignitary, they could take higher risks. Their usual reception, however, was just as unfriendly as the one for the ex-king. It was all the visitors could do to place gifts of coconuts, plastic buckets, iron tools and other marvels of modern civilization on the beach before they had to scramble back into their dinghy, sometimes under a shower of seriously hostile arrows. Blood was drawn at least once, in March 1974, when an arrow met its mark in the left thigh of the visiting team's cameraman. On seeing that he had scored a hit, the marksman on the beach laughed happily before stalking away to sit proudly in the shade of a tree. He clearly considered that he had done his duty by his people, as indeed he had.

For the past century all sorts of people, ranging from anthropologists to policemen, from to self-important politicians, administrators, naval officers,to private and occasionally blue-blooded busybodies, have tried to land on the island and make friendly contact. The estimated 50 to 400 Sentinelis on their 72 sq.km (28 sq.miles) island would not hear of it.

The earliest known mention of the Sentineli was published by the British surveyor John Ritchie who wrote down the following observation in 1771:

... and if we may judge from the multitude of lights seen upon the shore at night, it is well inhabited...
Until 1880 no known attempt to investigate the island went further than a circumnavigation of the dangerous reefs surrounding it. The islanders themselves were seen only by their torches at night or glimpsed as tiny specks on the beach from afar. In 1880 an expedition under M.V. Portman successfully accomplished the first known landing and exploration of North Sentinel island (see below).



The Sentineli are the quintessential Andamanese: to this day they live their primitive but comfortable and unhurried lives in complete isolation on a small island, they are hostile to all outsiders and they do not wish to change this state of affairs. Violence is the traditional way to ensure the undisturbed enjoyment of their way of life. In the 21st century, they will kill strangers outright and they hide from landing parties that look too strong to fight. If the landing parties offer coconuts and other goods, they will condescend to accept these, but as soon as the feel they have received enough, an obscene gesture makes clear that the outsiders are no longer tolerated and had better leave in a hurry:

Source: http://www.andaman.org/book/chapter8/text8.htm#sentineli

 

[pollo]

Map of Andaman islands:

Map of Tribes:

 

[Phranky]

"DNA analysis of another tribe, the Jarawa, whose members made first contact with the outside world in 1997, suggest that the tribesmen migrated from Africa around 60,000 years ago."

So they migrated from Africa to that island, but didn't go the rest of the way to the continent? Let's invade just because of their stupidity.

 

[Boomer]

I dont care if those fuckers are going to be able to cure cancer, let alone lead us to a better understanding of evolution. Leave them be. Shit

lol what

 

[Zaptruder]

"DNA analysis of another tribe, the Jarawa, whose members made first contact with the outside world in 1997, suggest that the tribesmen migrated from Africa around 60,000 years ago."

So they migrated from Africa to that island, but didn't go the rest of the way to the continent? Let's invade just because of their stupidity.

Or the main group did move on, and a smaller group that was comfortable with where they were decided to stay.

 

[pollo]

The realy kicker is that somehow all Sentenilese seemed to have survived the Tsunami while the Indian population suffered major casualties.

So much for advanced technology :lol

 

[Nameless]

They are probably gaurding/worshiping some artifact thats thats extremely powerful. The fountain of youth, the holy grail..who knows.

They should change it up and on season 6 of 24 have Jack Bauer infiltrate the island and discover their secret.

"Put the bow & arrow down this is your ONLY warning"

 

[pollo]

They are probably gaurding/worshiping some artifact thats thats extremely powerful. The fountain of youth, the holy grail..who knows.

They should change it up and on season 6 of 24 have Jack Bauer infiltrate the island and discover their secret.

"Put the bow & arrow down this is your ONLY warning"

Or our reliance on technology have totally numbed our survival instincts =X. Cant wait to see what the invading aliens have in store for us.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

I wonder if these had been Americans would Bush invade this island?

Shut the fuck up. Seriously!

Interesting story. This, coupled with the "Lost World" story from yesterday, really makes you wonder about some of these remote, untouched areas of the world, and what they still have to reveal to us.

 

[Owed T'Alex]

I wish these guys would let me join them

 

[Nameless]

Shut the fuck up. Seriously!

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LMFAO...

I'm sure he would convince the U.N...err..fuck the U.N. I'm sure he convince us Americans that these people's "Weapons of Primitive Nature" pose a serious threat to the country.

"Our intel has found that their arrows contain poision....And we have it on good authority that this poision is indeed antrhax...anthrax provided to these islanders by Iran"

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Why does every GAF OT thread have to make some mention of Bush/Poltics. Let it go. Move into one of the other threads to discuss this shit.