Meet the Sentinels!

Did you know that just around the corner from here lives the worlds most untouched tribe?

A tribe that has NO contact whatsoever with civilization and who has been known to KILL anyone who set foot on their island?

And to this day, only a few has been able to even try, since whenever someone arrives, even if it is just a helicopter hovering above, they have been met with a stream of arrows and have simply not been able to get on to the land there.

This tribe might have lived on the Andaman Island for up to 60.000 years and are theorized to be the direct descenders from the first human populations to emerge from Africa!

In the bay of Bengal between Myanmar and Indonesia is a group of 572 islands. The island group is among the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and here you will find the North Sentinel Island where the tribe flourish. These islands were formally a part of the Republic of India and India has actually declared some of these islands, among them the North Sentinel Island for closed to outsiders to preserve the culture there.

-  and yes, they would probably have to, cause one might ad, that with all the technology like drones or other flying vehicles or arms that we have today it would probably be easy to actually spy or explore the tribe secretly and gain more knowledge about their culture and traditions.

So maybe for the better that we are not allowed, so they can live their lives untouched by the rest of the worldly civilization.

One must have to admit though, that it seems strange in this day of age, that we have not been there to explore further in one way or another. That we have little to no knowledge at all about their lives there seems nearly impossible with the way we operate today. But never the less, this is the official word.

Even the present number of tribe members has been difficult to estimate and is said to be anywhere between 50 and 400 individuals!  It is hard to estimate even with drones, they say, since the forestation is so heavy there and covering most of the island!

The island itself is no bigger than Manhattan but its heavily forestation makes it hard to get a good look from above and furthermore the island is surrounded by a barrier of coral reefs which makes it hard for boats to get near the island.

The tribe have inhabited the island for thousands of years and the word is that no one has ever gone or left this island without fleeing immediately or being slaughtered by the Sentinelese, as the tribe is called, upon arrival. They are said to drive off fishermen, journalists, anthropologists and government officials with their spears and arrows!!

It is still a funny picture though and it does sound a bit odd if they ( still really ) are capable of terrorising any kind of visitors with only spears and arrows!