![]() The government has tested the Onge tribe as they are not an isolated tribe and they have tested negative, so it is implausible that the Sentinelese have tested positive-we might never know. Thanks to the global lockdown fishermen, boats- people haven’t gone close to the island in months. ![]() They survived a disease before left by Portman and his 4 kidnapped diseased animals but might not survive a virus-like corona. They are extremely vulnerable to all sorts of diseases and viruses- mostly Covid 19 as it spreads like a wildfire. The coronavirus the disease of the Anthropocene- has thankfully not managed to crawl into The North Sentinel Island as far as scientists know but there is still a possibility that the virus has infected the island. The more and more humans like us try to interact with them the more prone they are to diseases and viruses. How to save the Sentinelese you ask? The only way to save them is by leaving them alone. The Indian government must protect them come what may. They might have survived deadly diseases and an Earthquake but the ones to come are deadlier than both of them combined. They need more protection than just a law and a boundary. The Sentinelese are one of the last isolated hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, their existence on Earth is limited because of climate change, waste, technology and much much more. Effect Of The Modern World Problems On The Sentinelese Tribe ![]() We might never know what lies under the heavily covered forests of the island- it could be a civilization, aliens or even technology.īut this article is not to show the horrors the people faced when they went near the island but the horror the Sentinelese have to face and how scared they must be by humans and flying metal that looks like a dinosaur. It is still a mystery how they survived an earthquake and how after the 4 diseased children Portman kidnapped returned the tribe still survived. It would have been very unlikely for them to survive and yet they did. Portman hesitated and soon returned the 4 children back to the island’s shore and despite the diseases the children might have carried the tribe survived. Portman went into the island searching for Sentinelese (the only known human to have made it passed the shores and into the island) he found many deserted settlements full of shells, later they found a family of 6 and kidnapped them there were 2 adults and 4 children, he took them to the nearest major city all the natives soon fell sick and the adults died. ![]() In the 19 th century, Maurice Vidal Portman studied the inhabitants of the island and says that the studies cannot be called human. There should be no further contact with the tribe because of all the viruses floating around and also a study by Maria Vidal Portman. The fishermen and 6 others who helped Chau are in jail. The last contact to and with The Sentinelese was with journalist Chau who was killed and buried on the shore. It was also reported that the Sentinelese killed and buried the pig and the doll but surprisingly not the cooking utensils which they must have found use in killing and hunting.Īccording to this meet in 1974 Adams Goodheart’s wrote an article called- ‘The Last Island of Savages’. The reports say that the Sentinelese ate the coconuts happily even though it is not a native fruit of the island. Not only because the government has banned going to the island but also because the Sentinelese have become increasingly dangerous over the past few years. This is the first and must say last friendly visit the Sentinelese ever had with technology-based humans. In 1974 National Geographic gifted the Sentinelese a pig, doll, toy car, cooking utensils and coconuts. Attempts to recover their bodies were stopped as every time a helicopter or ship went close to the island it was welcomed with arrows and spears, their bodies were never recovered.Īnother story of fishermen illegally fishing for crabs near the shore of the island was also killed and never seen again. They drifted onto the shores of the island and were killed by the Sentinelese. Chau has never seen again no one knows if the body the Sentinelese were dragging was his or not.Ĭhau isn’t the only person who was killed by the Sentinelese 2 fishermen drunk and, in their boat, late at night drifted towards the island even after many fishermen warned them, as they were drunk, they didn’t seem to care. The fishermen were arrested for helping Chau as it was against the law. He was killed by the Sentinelese and was seen being dragged to bury on the shore by the fishermen the next day. The night Chau was taken to the island he told the fishermen not to wait for him. He expressed his frustration of not being welcomed the last few times he went. In his journal, he wrote his plan of going to the island by tipping the fishermen 30000$ just to take him to the island at night.
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