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Administration in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands has finally decided upon a policy of minimal interference Archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today "The most isolated tribe in the world?". Uncontacted tribes. Survival International. McDougall, Dan (11 February 2006). "Survival comes first for the last Stone Age tribe world". The Guardian
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. [8] The island is a protected area of India. It is home to the Sentinelese , an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.
Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India, while the Coco Islands and Preparis Island are part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar. The Andaman Islands are home to the Andamanese, a group of indigenous people made up of a number of tribes, including the Jarawa and Sentinelese. [1]
As the Jarawas are a nomadic tribe; they hunt endemic wild pigs, monitor lizards and other quarry with bows and arrows. They have recently begun keeping dogs to help with hunting, as the Onges and Andamanese do. [7] Since this is an island tribe, food sources in the ocean are highly important to them. Men fish with bows and arrows in shallow water.
Many Indigenous groups live on national forests or protected grounds, such as the Vale do Javari in Brazil [14] or North Sentinel Island in India. [15] Uncontacted peoples in the state of Acre in Brazil. In 1961, British explorer Richard Mason was killed by an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, the Panará. [16]
An American visiting one of the islands in India's remote cluster of Andaman and Nicobar has been killed by a group of hunter-gatherers. American tourist killed by Sentinelese Tribe on remote ...
Experts say the multi-billion project would be a 'death sentence' for the Shompen people.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India comprising 572 islands, of which only 38 are inhabited. The islands are grouped into two main clusters: the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands , separated by a 150 km (93 mi) wide channel .