Yesterday, I was reading a post in Neatorama about an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon who attached a helicopter with arrows. Then I remembered reading a similar article a couple of years back in The Hindu about a similar incident in the Andaman Islands. So I quickly did an online research and yes the incident was almost the same. But this tribe was in India while the newer incident has happened in the Amazon.
I remember reading about this incident and thinking, wow, we are in the 21st century and there are fellow human beings still primitive (by our current standards) living amongst us in this world. And it is extremely hard to believe that they are living as much as the same way they lived for thousands of years. The Sentinelese tribe (the tribe in the Andaman Islands) have supposed to have lived in the same island for about 60000 years. Amazing stuff. And if we believe the Bible we are probably only 2000-4000 years old (our world). Hehehehe.
I have put some links where you can read about the sentinelese and about the attacking helicopter with arrows incident.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/stone-age-tribe-kills-fishermen/2006/02/08/1139379571616.html
http://www.survival-international.org/campaigns/uncontactedtribes/mostisolated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
And some excerpts below:
“Yet when a helicopter flew low over the island, a Sentinelese man rushed out on to the beach, aiming his arrow at the pilot in a gesture that clearly said, ‘We don’t want you here’.”
The above incident clearly tells us that the Sentinelese have survived a thousand mishaps including the 2004 Tsunami and survived. Truly mind blowing stuff.
“Perhaps no people on Earth remain more genuinely isolated than the Sentinelese. They are thought to be directly descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa, and have probably lived in the Andaman Islands for up to 60,000 years. The fact that their language is so different even from other Andaman islanders suggests that they have had little contact with other people for thousands of years.”
“It is the sheer, intractable hostility of the Sentinelese that makes them so appealing to science. Had they been amenable to the advances of the West, they would have been assimilated long ago, and their unique identity drowned in an inundation of foreign genes. Today, their isolation – biological and geographical – makes them invaluable to studying our own species.”
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Do you know why the helicopter was there? Couple of days prior to that they had killed two fishermen (with their arrows) who were fishing in the region illegaly. The copter went there to retrive the bodies, but apparently they could not. The bodies till date haven’t been recovered. One must commend the police and Indian cost gaurd for resisting the pressure of doing so and leaving the tribe alone.
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Yeah dude… know the whole story… I know…I am proud of the Indian Govt. for once
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