Might I suggest you go look into the footage of 'unexplainable objects' a little further. The one you display is very clearly a passenger plane shown in thermal vision. I'm not really aware of any evidence of the zoo hypothesis and if anything the great video you've presented is an example that it's very unlikely that we would live undisturbed by an extraterrestrial civilization.
I’m really impressed with India for their compassion and empathy for this tribe and their will to protect them when they don’t have to. There’s really no advantage for India to pour money into their navy to ensure these people aren’t bothered any further. It’s admirable and my respect for India just went up!
Europeans are uneducated. I am from India, this is island has always been located in Indian territory (Bay of Bengal), yet these people are saying they are related to Chinese and Japanese Lol. These people should learn that Indians have tested neighboring tribes like Jarawa and Onge, who also look African, they show clear genetic relation to people of India, because Indian dna is part of the original dna related to the people who came from Africa some 80-100 thousand years ago
Really... believe every story you here ? Today, a road runs through Jarawa territory; tourists drive it with their windows down and cameras ready, like visitors to a safari park. Survival International, a London-based charity that advocates for isolated indigenous peoples, has published photographs and videos that show Jarawa dancing beside parked vehicles, in return for bananas and other food.
@@robertwadas Those are some random tourists who are doing that. The government has built clinics for Jarawas to take care of them. Indians overall have taken care of these Islanders way better than Europeans or East Asians would. They would have been wiped out by now 100 %, like all the other indigenous people. Remember just 80years ago in Europe you use put Africans in zoos for entertainment. These islands have been part of India so since 3000 years and in fact Indians are genetically related to them
@@robertwadas I don’t know what you’re talking about and admit ignorance from that topic. I said my respect went up because it is usually lower for various reasons. The major one being how my grandma was scammed and how my aunt was scammed and lost her house, and how the Indian government doesn’t do anything about scammers praying on elderly Americans. So I was kinda mad at India for that. But this story just elevated my respect. I’m not sure what’s wrong with saying that. And when I looked into this story about the island, it appears to be true and is even acknowledged as what’s happening by the US so I don’t know what you’re talking about exactly. It’s not some conspiracy. They are protecting the island.
If you zoom close enough in Google Earth, you can actually see paths all around the island. I even found what looks to be a hut near the eastern shore of the island.
I looked really close at the Galápagos Islands and found what's probably the turtles. Either that or there's some nice turtle shaped rocks with coinciding shadows lol.
It is without a doubt clear that Portman had homosexual interest in the male inhabitants of the Andaman Islands. He basically used his position to sexually abuse the male inhabitants.
I've watched just about every video on UA-cam regarding the Sentinelese. This has been the best one so far, easily! All the information about the salvage workers coming back to the Primrose, and interacting with the islanders, is something that I've never heard about before. Great work!
They are genetically related to us Indians because neighbouring islands tribes like Jarawa and onge have been tested, they showed clear genetic relations to India
It's worth noting that the most friendly contact by far was achieved the one time they allowed a woman, anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay, to join the mission. She was able to engage with them close up and even play with and hold the children. One wonders what could have been achieved if they had tried all female missions.
@@tonynannenga1954 Damn, someone should tell Ms. Chattopadhyay, who is still alive, that she has been killed and eaten, because it looks like she hasn't found out.
She still alive, traveled to the island in 1991. Went on to other islands and peoples before retiring to a desk job. She also disproved of the guy who died trying to bring religion to the peoples there.
At a certain point I think it’s too dangerous for the islanders because of immune system differences, that have probably only been exacerbated in the last century because of world migration. We’ve built immunity to lots of different viruses from other continents over the centuries, but part of that immunity was the large number of the most susceptible people that died initially. If they do visit that island with permission they should probably act like it’s the moon and disinfect and quarantine everyone involved because it would suck to bring them a disease that wiped them out.
I think they isolate themselves because they know their world’s history and they don’t want to be erased. They’re proud of themselves and I find that to be admirable.
Watched from Jamaica. When my island was discovered by Culumbus the tribes of Tino people were wiped out but afew years ago we have dicovered a small remant of them servived untill this day.
@DrummerJacob They migrated high up into the mountain areas of Jamaica to avoid being captured by the Spaniards. They would attack the Spaniards camps and then retreat back into the mountain areas where the Spaniards were afraid to go, so most of them remained in the highland parts of the country. Its a tragedy what the Spanish did to them. Upon Columbus's arrival, he said they were the nicest human beings on the planet. They offered Columbus everything they had as a gesture of companionship....and in return Columbus enslaved them and brutally murdered most of them...smh
Bro I gotta say, those are very different times in terms of talking about history and geography compared to what was like back in 2008-2014. Finding your channel with such a high quality of production and information in the middle of a massive influx of useless data and media is such a blessing . Nice work.
i am sure their population rapidly expands, they hit the wall, crash and eat each other, and seamlessly start all over again on a regular basis. and the reality is, i have peripheral support in that statement. 19:32 "no one knows why their hostility varied throughout these missions" ... Really?
" those are very different times in terms of talking about history and geography compared to what was like back in 2008-2014." What? Also, I love Jimms comment. People don't care if they make sense. What a time to be alive.
@@eriklarson9137 People used to seek information on full packages, with a beginning and and ending on information delivery, based on something scientific. Not just for SCIENCE science but also for psychology, geography and history. Things such as an documentary. After 2014 with the tiktok era, people get just unfiltered bits of information, little pieces that lack verification and sources. Information and stimulation overload. Rarely a gen Z will watch a full documentary or something like that. Fake news now exist thanks to the speed in which information is given without checking anything. This video reminded me of that old time, while also being engaging i'd imagine to pretty much anyone of any age.
i am sure their population rapidly expands, they hit the wall, crash and eat each other, and seamlessly start all over again on a regular basis. and the reality is, i have peripheral support in that statement. 19:32 "no one knows why their hostility varied throughout these missions" ... Really?
Deep Dive?....A bunch of people over a couple of Centuries tried to make contact and were Attacked Every Single Time & Hauled Ass Out Of There. The few who made contact were promptly Skewered. The End. Yep that was some Deep Diving, all right
I had heard about the missionary who had been speared/ killed while attempting to proselytize/ convert others to his belief system. You covered it as thoroughly and within the context of a broader way of looking at an isolated tribal group. I agree with you that it is enough to know that mesolithic people still inhabit the earth in what ought to be respected territory inhabited for 10's of thousands of years. The 'modern' way of life has removed humans from the natural world or rather created an adversarial relationship of exploitation with the planet. This should not be imposed upon all groups of humans. The Sentinalese percieve the 'modern' world as a threat to their existence, where as, the 'modern' world would no sooner want the Sentinalese way of life imposed on them. Let it be enough to know there are tribal groups who live in the ancient ways. Excellent documentary.
@@Rastachef519 Jesus did try to have him by having him being caught near death twice. God was giving the man the message that these people don't want his religion and he be better off going back home. Dude choose to continue with the third attempt and well, "Play stupid games, Win stupid prizes." If anything, blame the religious cult he was with that brainwashed him.
The existence of these tribes makes me so happy. They may hold the seeds to human survival in the long run. They are at least a wonderful reminder of the possibility of life without technology and commercialism. I hope they are forever left alone.
A lot of science dies at this island. The inbreeding myths come to mind. Those people should've died out thousands of years ago but somehow they evolved past the harms of inbreeding and still have a viable population.
This is why I find aliens 👽 always being depicted as some advanced technology civilization could be a false narrative. Maybe the reason why we haven’t seen alien is because they prefer to protect their planet instead of using up resources to build space crafts.
You act like technology and commercialism has destroyed us. Were the most advanced species on the planet, were capable of learning about every other creature and knowing more about them than they know about themselves and learning to make the Earth a more habitable place with the knowledge weve acquired and spread using both technology and commercialism. Theres nothing good or bad about what part of progress youre currently at, its all part of the same path anyway. Its not like they wouldnt start doing the same things as we did considering we came from that as well, our ancestors were just not that isolated and moved forward. They exist because we let them. One modern person could easily go in there and kill the entire island on their own in one day, so when it comes down to it, would you really rather be that helpless tribe? Lifes not fun out there, I promise you. I lived on an uninhabited island in the central Philippines for about 1.5 months and I thought I was going camping but I was going surviving, and its not something to blog about or take videos of, its quite literally the opposite of dying.
They hold nothing. All it would take is a few generations for us to regress into tribes and lose the wonders of science and civilization. They're human, they arent some magical people that know more than us. They are almost exactly like us, just raised in a far different environment, dont be amazed by this fact and don't be stupid.
This is the most exhaustive research I have ever seen done on the North sentinelese uploaded to UA-cam! Within the first 10 minutes I had heard so much information I'd never heard before, but for you to have a whole 40 minute video!? You should be proud of your work and I hope your channel reaches the stratosphere.
Best video I've seen on the subject, and I've watched quite a few of them! But you gave us information that I hadn't found anywhere before and it only helped me grow more curious regarding their culture, lifestyle, and biodiversity of the island itself. Amazing content my man.
@@michaelsinclair8018 perhaps. I cannot deny a valid point that you make here. However; I also cannot dismiss the merits of an otherwise comprehensive effort with details previously unheard and not before chronicled. Good editing, good narration, and a lack of particular clear bias. I liked the point covered about the other Andamanese being made fearful by the Sentinelese aggression, gestures, posturing, and belligerency. Something maybe deeply engrained there. Maybe I’m tinfoil Timmy now but, hey… it was a UA-cam documentary made by an amateur film maker/content creator. It was fun, it was amusing, it was informative. What have YOU done for me? What do you know about YOUR local zoo. Finally… Canada is Americas Hat. Peace.
@@michaelsinclair8018 Zoo hypotheses are one of the major categories for answering the Fermi paradox. I suggest watching more John Michael Godier and Isaac Arthur, both very non-fringe in their approaches to such questions.
@@taniamz3001 In this video everything they shown it's belongs to African tribes not an Indian.... I can assure you this... You can see in some other videos in you tube that shows some real pics of it..
this really is an amazing video, the script is awesome. i love when you describe what it would have been like for the Sentinelese when they were exploring the shipwreck, really cool.
The only reason they've been left alone is because there is no resources to exploit from them. No oil, no gold, no large population. Yup, they'll remain safe from the modern world. Awesome video, as always!
@@Annathroy Being left alone should have been replaced with only reason they have not been wiped out. If the island was rich in oil or gold they would no longer exist.
Just fly over & air drop a few dozen smart phones & solar chargers with pictures on how to use them. Then wait. All this isolation will end in a short while. Then there went their neighborhood.
Sometimes I wonder if some apocalyptic events were to happen to human civilization, would the North Sentineleses become the last remnant of humanity left?
A global cataclysm takes on different meaning in today's world, we no longer require a massive physical event, the grid going down which is very probable and most likely going to happen in our lifetimes ( our geomagnetic field dropped 10% in 100 years and has doubled that in about 20 years now, we are also going to the galactic current sheet, and half the planets in the solar system have had polar reversals the grid will not survive ours) anyway yeah if and when we lose power all of the people who aren't super depended on power are going to excel, the other day my mother tried telling me she was born in a community without power it won't be that bad I asked her if she had all the tools that she had growing up if everyone around her was used to living without power and off the land,, as the reality set in her face grew pale,, when the power goes out we're not going to be like we were before the power we're going to be like we were before we developed thousands of years worth of technology for living without power, and all the people who still use that hand technology who still live off the land they we'll have every Advantage imaginable, well we see massive die-off due to starvation and violence in the 'civilized' world
@@eyetrollin710I think you are under estimating how the everyday person is innovative and there are still books and plethora of documentation on primitive craft.
Me to I wish them the best and strongest hiuts the biggest game the best of everything And I don't fault them for killing anyone who steps on that island to make a point leave us alone or die
Off topic but I find the idea of native wildlife that we can never discover frustratingly fascinating. The idea that they may limit what they hunt to prevent scarcity and extinction is amazing too. There’s so many cases where we have failed to do so ourselves.
This is the best video I’ve seen on the Sentinelese next to GenoSamuel’s video on them. They are absolutely fascinating, they’re really very lucky, and some of these details and photos are new to me even though I’ve known about them for several years. I love that you talk about them like normal people trying with everything they have to defend themselves and their home instead of sensationalising them like a lot of people do. It wouldn’t shock me if they had ever had a feud or conflict with one or more neighbouring tribes sometime in the past, and with those oral histories going through the generations they’d never forget it.
I applaud them for being able to fight off intruders for decades staying true to their traditions and culture. Outsiders see them as hostile but they protected what many lost around the world. I love what was said, “we don’t need them and they don’t need us.” Thank goodness the modern didn’t need them, otherwise people would be arriving there with machine guns and bombs and not coconuts.
I know I would never mess with them, or even go close to their island. I respect their boundaries and that they will stand up for it. Also, have to give props to India for going out of their way to help protect them from intruders, and intruders from them.
@@angelaberni8873 You can always go and live there. You're exactly like one of those people who claimed to move to Canada (not Mexico, weirdly) if Trump got into office but never did. Sort that Karen haircut out as well.
I am Jewish and I have been bothered for years about Christianity. I do not try to convert you. I have found saying I belong to the church of Satan works rather well.
Thank you for uploading this video! There are a few 2 minute videos showing the natives along side the beach trying to warn people to go away. But nothing going in length about them and their encounters with today’s world. I’ve been looking forward to someone doing a documentary on this island and it’s people. Fascinating because they live like their ancestors have for thousands of years. I didn’t know about that large ship that went aground and took them 18 months to dismantle it. When the foreigners left, imagine what they thought about what they saw onboard! We are completely alien to them.
Very nice video, very fascinating!! It's like a window into the past. I'm impressed by the amount of upclose footage there is! I hope we continue to observe from a distance.
I don’t know why but I find their hostility hilarious. The taunts and the kid shooting a bible with an arrow cracked me up. Good on them for continuing to live their own way.
@@eanattig990Stop using this word. Anybody who doesn't agree with you is a savage for you. You exterminated almost all native by naming them Savages. Leave Sanitinalies alone, you fools.
I have an undergraduate degree in anthropology and the gentleman who was killed did not learn from those classes to go and do what he did. In reality, this kind of behavior was strongly discouraged.
He did it wrong, you need to take some torture devices with you. He obviously hasn't studied the history of the Catholic Church very well and how they now control the planet. You convert through torture, brainwashing, mind control techniques, etc...
I don’t have an anthropology degree or even a huge anthropology interest, but agree and think that most people, and certainly modern anthropology, considers essentially forcing intrusive contact with peoples who clearly don’t want it is hugely discouraged, or outright condemned. And in comments, even many Christians and Evangelicals considered his actions very misguided, even from a missionary standpoint. So agree that the comment about anthropology courses in the video was unfortunate and likely inaccurate.
This is not what I expected. Quality, masterful storytelling, exceptional well curated visuals, but deepest dive, mindbending, existential work like this is next level. Congratulations, you've added new steps to the arc of storytelling, through rising action and climax to existential crisis, then epiphany to empathy. I'm still not sure my words captured the journey, but I do know the cumulative effect was a journey to a new place, a new reality. 🖖😎
You've quickly become one of my favorite channels and this might be one of your best videos to date! I've gone through much of your archive and while your older videos are very interesting there's a clear improvement in editing and quality! Looking forward to the next one
This is of the best documentaries I've seen, and I've watch more than I can count. I'm curious about how such a small group maintains healthy genetic diversity over tens of thousands of years. You treated the Sentinelese with such respect that I would love a documentary about required diversity from you. In any case, I appreciate your diligent work researching, preparing and presenting this information. Great job!
These people have always interested me as soon as I had learned of them, but no matter who I was or what kind of research I wanted on these people I would never try to harm them just because I am interested. I am happy they are a protected group. They are so resourceful and must be extremely smart to live in the island conditions.
The ship incident in 1981 is a good metaphor for us chasing away the crew of an alien spacecraft and getting a good look inside marveling at the otherworldly tech.
Im 71 and have never ever heard about this island or its people, I found this to most illuminating, both philosophically and culturally. These surely will be the last people living like this i will hear about before i die. Soon, no doubt our planet will be one homogeneous dying world, achieving intellectual precocity, while abandoning critical discourse and realisation of our mutually destructive lifestyle. But thank you so much for this work i hope Stefan enjoyed this too. The ramifications of this video deserve Eric Satie. Once more Thank You Mr North.
These people have incredible inter-generational memory and I’m sure people getting sick was a huge sign to them that this is not some thing that is safe for them whether they feel we did it intentionally or not. They are very smart.
I love any and all videos like this. Not sure how I feel about contact. As a kid, our school had a large influx of refugees from southeast Asia. The "boat children." Our town was a farm community, a lot of people were foster parents, and language education was already in place because we were on a regular circuit for migrant labor to keep their kids in school as they traveled and harvested. Maybe that's why so many were there, but anyway, some of my friends had been hunter gatherer people. I mean shooting arrows at helicopters, running naked, living like the stone age. They could memorize huge amounts of information without effort, and learning languages was no problem for them, they came here knowing two or three already, so English was a no brainer for them. It's amazing the high intelligence it takes to keep all the knowledge of hunting and gathering wild things in your mind, I wonder if our life style is actually making us dumber. They had varying views about contact, but most of them were glad. Like my one friend was saying the highlight of their day had been bringing in a food source. It took all day, it took everyone. Everything took everyone. And everyone told everyone how great they were at their part, and they were all pretty happy. This was a great way to be, but then she kind of liked hopping into the shower and having hot water. Sort of hard to know if that's a bad thing.
The modern human is a child in comparison to people who live this lifestyle. IT's the most physically and mentally challenging form of existence there is.
@@MrBottlecapBill I mean it's what you know from the environment you've lived within isn't it. I'm pretty sure if you gave a Sentinelese a 9 to 5 job and sat them in traffic for two hours a day they'd want to blow their brains out by the end of the week...
@@MrBottlecapBillDomestication causes all other animals to stay babylike, so of course that affects humans too. We have domesticated ourself and so we become physically and mentally more childlike little by little. Now is that a bad or a good thing? Probably both depending on exacts.
It is very moving to see a people, like the Sentinals, our ancestors of sorts, still untainted by civilization, and free of this technological world which has come to enslave us. Thank you
@@Jannfndnanakidthey are living free of war and class struggle. No one is getting rich from the land they live on or the food they eat. I think they are doing much better than most of the “civilized” world.
@@travassesyep. Just simply surviving in perpetual balance with nature. No goals, no failures, no expectations, no keeping up with the joneses, no taxes. Just a peaceful simple life
Honestly it makes me happy that they've been able to keep the rest of the world out. It wouldn't do them much good in the long run to be contacted by outsiders. They'd either be wiped to near extinction immediately from diseases they're not immune to with the surivors to be left impovershed as other nations exploit their island's natural resources for profit. I hope they will continue to keep their island to their community for generations to come. Sure it'd be thrilling to interact and learn more about them, but at what cost?
Conversion was and still is a great evil to be infecting remote peoples anywhere. Diseases of the body are bad, but messing with core cultures and spirituality of any indigenous group horrifies me. It reduces the afflicted to poverty, illness, mental accuity, and lifestyle incongruities. We can make great deductions about them without intrusion. Gifts should never have been made. Such introductions can produce jealousy and greed these people may not be experiencing naturally. This island's inhabitants sure put a gaping maw in the concept of "unconscious bias."
Yes! They have survived perfectly well on their own for millennia. They do not need a single thing from us - not our material culture, not our technology, and certainly not our ridiculous bullshit religions! Leave them the hell alone.
I have been seeing the same few stories about North Sentinel Island for years and finding this here was like a breath of fresh air. I had thought we knew nothing else about them! You've done a really wonderful job here and I found the whole video quite riveting. I also very much like your voice and tone - it's not often I can listen to a voice speak for 40 minutes without it becoming annoying! Regarding the inhabitants, I have found myself wondering how it's possible that such a healthy people with, as you said, children, babies and pregnant women, have not overpopulated their small island. Do you have any theories about that, @ North02? Various unsavoury (to me) practices have gone through my mind as I think of how they might keep their population down to fit the space. Would there be dangerous beasts also on land? It seems unlikely. I'm sure death comes from childbirth, pre and post-natal complications, infections from injuries, sharks ... but what else unless there are rituals designed to weed out the weak or otherwise less desirable members?
Well a population can only grow as much as the environment allows so there isn't any need to "cull the herd". Once it reaches the point that there isn't enough food, land etc. to support more people then they won't expand any more. Obviously there are probably periods in which the population is much smaller/larger but it will always default back to the carrying capacity of the land.
@@fainitesbarley2245 That's what they do, and have been doing for hundreds of years. They're holding up good enough, so yeah, I guess they will stick to that diet, and more of course.
This his-story telling began sounding like a lie! But it was a miracle that the shipwrecked crew, made their way back to the ship & fought the natives off with sticks, which saved all of those sailors lives!! But they came back and colonized! Simply Amazing!
This is such an interesting and intellectual video. Thank you for telling the Sentinalese story so beautifully. You’ve earned a new sub and deserve more recognition!
@@Alizudo Yes but those bows are quite crude and do not shoot arrows very far From Antiquity to the middle ages Bows and arrow making were a skill , much like how guns are manufactured today , the quality of the bow matters alot
@@JcoleMc It also depends on the materials available. Yew and bamboo are particularly good for making bows out of, and animal muscle makes for especially strong string. As crude as they may be, discovery of new techniques happens very rapidly in a skill like this; even within a single person's lifetime, the quality of the bows can drastically increase. And when their lifestyles depend on their bows being ready and able at all times, I don't doubt they're quite capable at making them; stone tools be damned.
I'm far from an asmr guy, I prefer death metal, but I've gotta say you have a very relaxing quality to your orations. Another great one, and it's rad to see that this channel I've watched since 30,000 subs has ten times that now. Only a matter of time before you get that gold play button.
I love watching videos as this, that way I can connect how and when people moved out of Africa through Madagascar, especially for us the Melanesians and the Austronesian.
They are genetically related to us Indians because neighbouring islands tribes like Jarawa and onge have been tested, they showed clear genetic relations to India
@@jacobesyas9801 they've made it clear that they do not want help, let alone a drastic change in their lives. Besides, look at all the native communities that were "integrated" into western societies. Almost all of them end up poor and have their lives ruined. Also, we could study these people from a distance, perhaps with more covert drones in the future and learn a great deal about hunter-gatherer societies as these people have had very little contact with the outside world, something that is rare among such groups today.
yeah got famous now, but only a hundred or so versus over a billion, island may not last and among lowest laying so would try to find a balance and help with immunity
Indian anthropology professors: make careful trips to North Sentinel Island, leave after realising they're not doing any good Religious fanatic John Chau, after taking anthropology courses at university:
Ikr... Nevermind the dude purposely put himself in that situation and then basically says to God, I will die if it is your will. God didn't send you to the island you did.
How about sending a drone to video them? Ethical? Could we learn a lot about the origins of man by watching them from a safe distance via a drone, so as to avoid an encounter that might bring them disease?
@@FabricofTime Well, let’s stay ignorant then, or worse, risk life and limb to learn about them. Any better ideas or just remain ignorant of them? A drone is the least intrusive and least risky thing that we could do to understand this group. Nothing is perfect in life. It’s all about trade-offs.
You're not entitled to any of that info and whats knowing about them gonna do for you personally in life? Absolutely fucking nothing colonizer 😂@@user-fs8tl7ni1w
It's so fascinating to learn about these isolated tribes. I wonder in what way these people be describing all these encounters with civilization thousands of years advanced then them? In what way the modern world would be a part of thier folklore/mythology?
The irony is that the Islanders were aiming bows and arrows in his direction, yet he says in his journal that maybe they didn't get the memo, Eh sorry mate, it's you that didn't get the memo!🤣🤣🤣
great video essay. Have subscribed and can't wait to explore more of your content. This is so well researched and presented. Thanks for helping me discover more about this fascinating island and tribe. Also, you have a great presentation voice. What a find!
I love your videos! Best on youtube by far! I always look forward to new uploads and like them even before i watch, couse i know im gonna love it! Keep up the good work Mr. North02. Soon you'll be the most popular documentary maker on youtube, im sure of it! Greetings from Norway❤️🤗
2nd time watching this video. Really great presentation. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos North02 and any editors behind the scenes. Thank you to the patrons who financially support these channels since UA-cam doesn't.
I think he said a maximum of 400 people could live on that amount of land and it’s resources. If they have had no new blood for thousands of years we know that at least within their gene pool they are able to sustain a healthy population with these limited numbers. I’m surprised that this is the case. They must all be very closely related. Does anyone know what number of people is generally considered a minimum to maintain a healthy population?
I don't think it's just the number of peopole that matter, even so I think it's around a dozen, how "strong" their genes are also matters. Considering the life they live they probably have a better genetic make-up that most peopole on earth. As a result genetic problems would not arise often, and if they do those unluky children will probably not make it to adulthood, and if they do it's unlikely they'll also have children of their own.
The US National Park Service claims 3000 American Bison are required to maintain genetic diversity in the herd in Yellowstone National Park. This herd is thought to be largely derived from a small group of survivors of the slaughter of this species by hide hunters and the US Army implementing US Government policies intended to make the Plains tribes of Native Americans dependent on the government for food ....
Quantitative genetics suggests smaller numbers of breeding adults are required to maintain genetic diversity, but the number required increases dramatically if most of the effective breeding involves a small portion of the individuals of one or both sexes.
First time visiting this channel. It's also the first time I've ever heard about that shipwreck and salvage operation near the island. That's a whole other chapter of the outside contact story that I knew nothing about.
Wonderful video. Thank you for all of your hard work. Very interesting. The Sentinalese are better left alone. I hope it stays this way. They seem very happy , healthy and fiercely independent.
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Might I suggest you go look into the footage of 'unexplainable objects' a little further. The one you display is very clearly a passenger plane shown in thermal vision. I'm not really aware of any evidence of the zoo hypothesis and if anything the great video you've presented is an example that it's very unlikely that we would live undisturbed by an extraterrestrial civilization.
If that missionary really wanted to preach to those in "Satan's last stronghold," he should have started in Congress.
Very sad!
Hey, Babbel, do you teach North Sentinelese? If not, bugger off!
I’m really impressed with India for their compassion and empathy for this tribe and their will to protect them when they don’t have to. There’s really no advantage for India to pour money into their navy to ensure these people aren’t bothered any further. It’s admirable and my respect for India just went up!
Though having many 3rd world problems. A few things about India surprise me, and I'm an Indian.
Europeans are uneducated. I am from India, this is island has always been located in Indian territory (Bay of Bengal), yet these people are saying they are related to Chinese and Japanese Lol. These people should learn that Indians have tested neighboring tribes like Jarawa and Onge, who also look African, they show clear genetic relation to people of India, because Indian dna is part of the original dna related to the people who came from Africa some 80-100 thousand years ago
Really... believe every story you here ? Today, a road runs through Jarawa territory; tourists drive it with their windows down and cameras ready, like visitors to a safari park. Survival International, a London-based charity that advocates for isolated indigenous peoples, has published photographs and videos that show Jarawa dancing beside parked vehicles, in return for bananas and other food.
@@robertwadas Those are some random tourists who are doing that. The government has built clinics for Jarawas to take care of them. Indians overall have taken care of these Islanders way better than Europeans or East Asians would. They would have been wiped out by now 100 %, like all the other indigenous people. Remember just 80years ago in Europe you use put Africans in zoos for entertainment. These islands have been part of India so since 3000 years and in fact Indians are genetically related to them
@@robertwadas I don’t know what you’re talking about and admit ignorance from that topic. I said my respect went up because it is usually lower for various reasons. The major one being how my grandma was scammed and how my aunt was scammed and lost her house, and how the Indian government doesn’t do anything about scammers praying on elderly Americans. So I was kinda mad at India for that. But this story just elevated my respect. I’m not sure what’s wrong with saying that. And when I looked into this story about the island, it appears to be true and is even acknowledged as what’s happening by the US so I don’t know what you’re talking about exactly. It’s not some conspiracy. They are protecting the island.
I never tire of hearing about North Sentinel Island. So fascinating.
Don't visit, though 😁
They we not welcome white people
These primitive Satanic people needs to be made to choose between Jesus or death! @@oneshothunter9877
Uncontacted tribes are always fascinating. There are supposedly some of these tribes rumored to live in the Amazon as well.
I agree its absolutely fascinating
If you zoom close enough in Google Earth, you can actually see paths all around the island. I even found what looks to be a hut near the eastern shore of the island.
seems to be some dedicated fishing huts
Damn, adventuring sure had changed. Looking up isolated tribes from god like perspective on Google Earth... Im not complaining.
Oooohci need to go look at that
I looked really close at the Galápagos Islands and found what's probably the turtles. Either that or there's some nice turtle shaped rocks with coinciding shadows lol.
Don't let Pfizer find out about these guys, they'll be mandating the aborigines get the jab and the dozen boosters.
I love these tribes. They show us how our ancestors might have lived.
And what the physical body can do also is fascinating to me
Violent savages and murderers?
@@XanderXSquaredthey are not murders. They are smart people who didn’t let white people take over their island.
Like animals? Sounds great.
@@mattdillon4398 Humans are animals, Sherlock.
This is for sure the best and most informative UA-cam documentary about the North Sentinal Island, it's inhabitants and it's history.
It is without a doubt clear that Portman had homosexual interest in the male inhabitants of the Andaman Islands. He basically used his position to sexually abuse the male inhabitants.
yep, he was interested in that BBC! @@1stGeorgiePie
Yes. I earned so much about those inquisitive people who creep in. Their ways have not changed.
@@shanegalang9lol I didn’t see that coming 😅
I've watched just about every video on UA-cam regarding the Sentinelese. This has been the best one so far, easily! All the information about the salvage workers coming back to the Primrose, and interacting with the islanders, is something that I've never heard about before. Great work!
Same
They are genetically related to us Indians because neighbouring islands tribes like Jarawa and onge have been tested, they showed clear genetic relations to India
@AwomensLove well yes. But the Africans who left 80,000 years ago. They are actually ancestors of present day people of India
I think what makes this video excellent, is that the narrator sounds exactly like the dude from "you suck at cooking ."
Same here. It was definitely more informative. Thanks.
It's worth noting that the most friendly contact by far was achieved the one time they allowed a woman, anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay, to join the mission. She was able to engage with them close up and even play with and hold the children. One wonders what could have been achieved if they had tried all female missions.
Probably lots of raping.
Which happens on missions today which in most of them the women have to be locked into a compound at night for there safety.
You also forgot to mention that when she went back again they killed and ate her. What the record book says.
@@tonynannenga1954 Damn, someone should tell Ms. Chattopadhyay, who is still alive, that she has been killed and eaten, because it looks like she hasn't found out.
She still alive, traveled to the island in 1991. Went on to other islands and peoples before retiring to a desk job. She also disproved of the guy who died trying to bring religion to the peoples there.
At a certain point I think it’s too dangerous for the islanders because of immune system differences, that have probably only been exacerbated in the last century because of world migration.
We’ve built immunity to lots of different viruses from other continents over the centuries, but part of that immunity was the large number of the most susceptible people that died initially. If they do visit that island with permission they should probably act like it’s the moon and disinfect and quarantine everyone involved because it would suck to bring them a disease that wiped them out.
I think they isolate themselves because they know their world’s history and they don’t want to be erased. They’re proud of themselves and I find that to be admirable.
That sound effect of the coconut at 16:55 and again at 17:02 of the kid running back into the jungle had me rolling 😆😆😆😆😆.
And the "threatening gesture with his "knife"!" had me cracking up too... Dude was swinging around his "knife" indeed! XD
The coconut throwing reminds me of door dash LOL
Bonk! 🤣🤣
Watched from Jamaica. When my island was discovered by Culumbus the tribes of Tino people were wiped out but afew years ago we have dicovered a small remant of them servived untill this day.
Thats interesting. What part of the island were they found in?
Cool!
In the mountain area, one of them were inteviewed on You Tube.@@DrummerJacob
@DrummerJacob They migrated high up into the mountain areas of Jamaica to avoid being captured by the Spaniards. They would attack the Spaniards camps and then retreat back into the mountain areas where the Spaniards were afraid to go, so most of them remained in the highland parts of the country. Its a tragedy what the Spanish did to them. Upon Columbus's arrival, he said they were the nicest human beings on the planet. They offered Columbus everything they had as a gesture of companionship....and in return Columbus enslaved them and brutally murdered most of them...smh
Are you Indian origin?
Bro I gotta say, those are very different times in terms of talking about history and geography compared to what was like back in 2008-2014. Finding your channel with such a high quality of production and information in the middle of a massive influx of useless data and media is such a blessing . Nice work.
history and geography doesn't cover mate...
i am sure their population rapidly expands, they hit the wall, crash and eat each other, and seamlessly start all over again on a regular basis.
and the reality is, i have peripheral support in that statement.
19:32 "no one knows why their hostility varied throughout these missions" ... Really?
" those are very different times in terms of talking about history and geography compared to what was like back in 2008-2014." What? Also, I love Jimms comment. People don't care if they make sense. What a time to be alive.
@@eriklarson9137 People used to seek information on full packages, with a beginning and and ending on information delivery, based on something scientific. Not just for SCIENCE science but also for psychology, geography and history. Things such as an documentary. After 2014 with the tiktok era, people get just unfiltered bits of information, little pieces that lack verification and sources. Information and stimulation overload. Rarely a gen Z will watch a full documentary or something like that. Fake news now exist thanks to the speed in which information is given without checking anything. This video reminded me of that old time, while also being engaging i'd imagine to pretty much anyone of any age.
i am sure their population rapidly expands, they hit the wall, crash and eat each other, and seamlessly start all over again on a regular basis.
and the reality is, i have peripheral support in that statement.
19:32 "no one knows why their hostility varied throughout these missions" ... Really?
"After throwing coconuts for some time..." is probably the best sentence in this whole thing
Why
@@RayniDayze Monkeys
reminds me of the good old days, when i would bang my nuts for quite some time. ah, envious of the good life on n. sentinel boogaloo island.
This is the deepest dive into this island and its people. Thank you for describing the people with respect but not romanticizing them.
Deep Dive?....A bunch of people over a couple of Centuries tried to make contact and were Attacked Every Single Time & Hauled Ass Out Of There. The few who made contact were promptly Skewered.
The End.
Yep that was some Deep Diving, all right
I had heard about the missionary who had been speared/ killed while attempting to proselytize/ convert others to his belief system. You covered it as thoroughly and within the context of a broader way of looking at an isolated tribal group. I agree with you that it is enough to know that mesolithic people still inhabit the earth in what ought to be respected territory inhabited for 10's of thousands of years. The 'modern' way of life has removed humans from the natural world or rather created an adversarial relationship of exploitation with the planet. This should not be imposed upon all groups of humans. The Sentinalese percieve the 'modern' world as a threat to their existence, where as, the 'modern' world would no sooner want the Sentinalese way of life imposed on them. Let it be enough to know there are tribal groups who live in the ancient ways. Excellent documentary.
What can I say Catholic Churches
Why Jesus didn’t save him ? People needs to respect others because they are different
@@Rastachef519 Jesus did try to have him by having him being caught near death twice. God was giving the man the message that these people don't want his religion and he be better off going back home. Dude choose to continue with the third attempt and well, "Play stupid games, Win stupid prizes." If anything, blame the religious cult he was with that brainwashed him.
@@WatcherMovie008 He tried to speak English to these people as if they'd understand. Religion makes people do stupid things.
They need to be left Alone!!!!!
The existence of these tribes makes me so happy. They may hold the seeds to human survival in the long run. They are at least a wonderful reminder of the possibility of life without technology and commercialism. I hope they are forever left alone.
A lot of science dies at this island. The inbreeding myths come to mind. Those people should've died out thousands of years ago but somehow they evolved past the harms of inbreeding and still have a viable population.
This is why I find aliens 👽 always being depicted as some advanced technology civilization could be a false narrative. Maybe the reason why we haven’t seen alien is because they prefer to protect their planet instead of using up resources to build space crafts.
You act like technology and commercialism has destroyed us. Were the most advanced species on the planet, were capable of learning about every other creature and knowing more about them than they know about themselves and learning to make the Earth a more habitable place with the knowledge weve acquired and spread using both technology and commercialism.
Theres nothing good or bad about what part of progress youre currently at, its all part of the same path anyway. Its not like they wouldnt start doing the same things as we did considering we came from that as well, our ancestors were just not that isolated and moved forward.
They exist because we let them. One modern person could easily go in there and kill the entire island on their own in one day, so when it comes down to it, would you really rather be that helpless tribe? Lifes not fun out there, I promise you. I lived on an uninhabited island in the central Philippines for about 1.5 months and I thought I was going camping but I was going surviving, and its not something to blog about or take videos of, its quite literally the opposite of dying.
I agree they should be left alone but nothing last forever including human survival
They hold nothing. All it would take is a few generations for us to regress into tribes and lose the wonders of science and civilization. They're human, they arent some magical people that know more than us. They are almost exactly like us, just raised in a far different environment, dont be amazed by this fact and don't be stupid.
Excellent presentation. Very informative and thoughtful. Thanks for putting this together.
This is the most exhaustive research I have ever seen done on the North sentinelese uploaded to UA-cam! Within the first 10 minutes I had heard so much information I'd never heard before, but for you to have a whole 40 minute video!? You should be proud of your work and I hope your channel reaches the stratosphere.
Really ? Because the video footage isn’t even if the sentilese
Best video I've seen on the subject, and I've watched quite a few of them! But you gave us information that I hadn't found anywhere before and it only helped me grow more curious regarding their culture, lifestyle, and biodiversity of the island itself. Amazing content my man.
This is by far the best and most informative NSI video on UA-cam. Well done. Much more in depth than 99% of all the others. Again, well done.
Any video that brings up a "Zoo Hypothesis" about the Earth and extraterrestrials is NOT a good video.
He sounds like a Tin Foil Hat guy at the end.
@@michaelsinclair8018 perhaps. I cannot deny a valid point that you make here. However; I also cannot dismiss the merits of an otherwise comprehensive effort with details previously unheard and not before chronicled. Good editing, good narration, and a lack of particular clear bias. I liked the point covered about the other Andamanese being made fearful by the Sentinelese aggression, gestures, posturing, and belligerency. Something maybe deeply engrained there. Maybe I’m tinfoil Timmy now but, hey… it was a UA-cam documentary made by an amateur film maker/content creator. It was fun, it was amusing, it was informative. What have YOU done for me? What do you know about YOUR local zoo. Finally… Canada is Americas Hat. Peace.
@@michaelsinclair8018Agree. Everything before that was good though
@@michaelsinclair8018 Zoo hypotheses are one of the major categories for answering the Fermi paradox. I suggest watching more John Michael Godier and Isaac Arthur, both very non-fringe in their approaches to such questions.
Thank you for this kind, respectful and immersive doc
Keep up the great work North 02, your videos are great quality and you really need more recognition!
Fax
@@ggf_andyfox1946opinions.
>aliens show up
>dump 1000 tons of rare earth metals on the ground
>take a few pictures
>refuse to elaborate
>leave
Only to unintentionally crash the global economy
Absolute gigachad.
They already got the last 4200 years recorded of anytime on earth. They ain't taking pics
How did you manage to get so much information and pictures and videos?! Congratulations and thank you. Excellent work.
Pictures and videos are not belong to the North Sentinel..for your information
@@velaravind7545 ohhhhh shoot, I had thought most of them were.
@@taniamz3001 Since 1956 photography and visiting sentinel island is prohibited by Indian government... Indian Navy patrol guarding the Island.
@@velaravind7545 right, but I thought maybe those videos were taken before or something, you know? 🤷🏽♀️
@@taniamz3001 In this video everything they shown it's belongs to African tribes not an Indian.... I can assure you this... You can see in some other videos in you tube that shows some real pics of it..
This is by far the best video i've seen on this subject. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
this really is an amazing video, the script is awesome. i love when you describe what it would have been like for the Sentinelese when they were exploring the shipwreck, really cool.
This video was absolutely FANTASTIC! Maybe the best video on NSI on youtube. Great Job man!
The only reason they've been left alone is because there is no resources to exploit from them. No oil, no gold, no large population. Yup, they'll remain safe from the modern world.
Awesome video, as always!
You mean safe from white people and their cousins.
Your comment entirely disregards the fact that the Indian government checked up on them from the pure benevolent motives
@@Annathroy Being left alone should have been replaced with only reason they have not been wiped out. If the island was rich in oil or gold they would no longer exist.
@@Annathroy I wonder why India might be motivated to ensure the well being of post colonial peoples.
Just fly over & air drop a few dozen smart phones & solar chargers with pictures on how to use them. Then wait. All this isolation will end in a short while. Then there went their neighborhood.
What an amazing life?!?!
No phones or technology, just pure and utter isolation !
Procreating with your cousin
@@nateb4543Or brother/sister. It depends upon the broader gene pool when inbreeding becomes a problem.
@@mariekatherine5238 ya no shit
@@mariekatherine5238inbreeding is clearly not an issue.
Let's put all magas there with their tangerine leader he can get a real tan😅😅
Sometimes I wonder if some apocalyptic events were to happen to human civilization, would the North Sentineleses become the last remnant of humanity left?
...and news of world cataclysm would not even get to their newspaper first pages...
yea, they may develop space craft too.😂
A global cataclysm takes on different meaning in today's world, we no longer require a massive physical event, the grid going down which is very probable and most likely going to happen in our lifetimes ( our geomagnetic field dropped 10% in 100 years and has doubled that in about 20 years now, we are also going to the galactic current sheet, and half the planets in the solar system have had polar reversals the grid will not survive ours) anyway yeah if and when we lose power all of the people who aren't super depended on power are going to excel, the other day my mother tried telling me she was born in a community without power it won't be that bad I asked her if she had all the tools that she had growing up if everyone around her was used to living without power and off the land,, as the reality set in her face grew pale,, when the power goes out we're not going to be like we were before the power we're going to be like we were before we developed thousands of years worth of technology for living without power, and all the people who still use that hand technology who still live off the land they we'll have every Advantage imaginable, well we see massive die-off due to starvation and violence in the 'civilized' world
@WishfulThinking-ms2cfnot really.....
@@eyetrollin710I think you are under estimating how the everyday person is innovative and there are still books and plethora of documentation on primitive craft.
I like how this is so respectfully done. I wish them the best and happiness.
Me to I wish them the best and strongest hiuts the biggest game the best of everything
And I don't fault them for killing anyone who steps on that island to make a point leave us alone or die
What did you understand from this?
Thank you so much for your dedication to bring us storytelling, thst is both factual, yet entertaining! Absolutely brilliant. Keep it up!
Off topic but I find the idea of native wildlife that we can never discover frustratingly fascinating.
The idea that they may limit what they hunt to prevent scarcity and extinction is amazing too. There’s so many cases where we have failed to do so ourselves.
This is the best video I’ve seen on the Sentinelese next to GenoSamuel’s video on them. They are absolutely fascinating, they’re really very lucky, and some of these details and photos are new to me even though I’ve known about them for several years. I love that you talk about them like normal people trying with everything they have to defend themselves and their home instead of sensationalising them like a lot of people do. It wouldn’t shock me if they had ever had a feud or conflict with one or more neighbouring tribes sometime in the past, and with those oral histories going through the generations they’d never forget it.
I applaud them for being able to fight off intruders for decades staying true to their traditions and culture. Outsiders see them as hostile but they protected what many lost around the world. I love what was said, “we don’t need them and they don’t need us.” Thank goodness the modern didn’t need them, otherwise people would be arriving there with machine guns and bombs and not coconuts.
Bet this went over a lot of heads 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I know I would never mess with them, or even go close to their island. I respect their boundaries and that they will stand up for it. Also, have to give props to India for going out of their way to help protect them from intruders, and intruders from them.
@fordid42 personally I think that they are better off than us. They are truly FREE,unlike US !!!
What's saved them is being mineral free,
Imagine just one of them wearing a Gold nugget around the neck??
@@angelaberni8873 You can always go and live there.
You're exactly like one of those people who claimed to move to Canada (not Mexico, weirdly) if Trump got into office but never did.
Sort that Karen haircut out as well.
Great video packed with the history and current status of North Sentinel Island and its inhabitants. Well done!
Another great video NorthO2.🎉 Thanks
23:22 my biggest issue with some christians, like bro we don't need you preaching to us lol. Bro really called it satans last stronghold smh
I am Jewish and I have been bothered for years about Christianity. I do not try to convert you. I have found saying I belong to the church of Satan works rather well.
@@whitney1348 It's all got nothing to do with f*cking religion!!!!! Nobody should be trying to convert anyone else to their f*cking religion!!!!!
@@morrisfromnorthvan - That’s right. As long as it keeps the made up religion of Christianity off my fromt door. Remember Jesus was Jewish.
@ - Do not forget Jesus was Jewish.
We all know your people worshop satan anyway 😂
@@whitney1348
Thank you for uploading this video! There are a few 2 minute videos showing the natives along side the beach trying to warn people to go away. But nothing going in length about them and their encounters with today’s world.
I’ve been looking forward to someone doing a documentary on this island and it’s people. Fascinating because they live like their ancestors have for thousands of years. I didn’t know about that large ship that went aground and took them 18 months to dismantle it. When the foreigners left, imagine what they thought about what they saw onboard! We are completely alien to them.
North 02 you’re absolutely crushing it. Keep it up - love this content
Terrific peice. Really held my interest. Thanks for putting this together. Fascinating.
Very nice video, very fascinating!! It's like a window into the past. I'm impressed by the amount of upclose footage there is! I hope we continue to observe from a distance.
Finally, I found a channel on UA-cam that's educational and mind opening to me! I really appreciate the content you give us👏
I don’t know why but I find their hostility hilarious. The taunts and the kid shooting a bible with an arrow cracked me up. Good on them for continuing to live their own way.
Because you are simple minded and naive. These people are bastards, and if they had the technology, you would be their victim, not their friend.
Savages
@@eanattig990Stop using this word. Anybody who doesn't agree with you is a savage for you. You exterminated almost all native by naming them Savages. Leave Sanitinalies alone, you fools.
Bad history
@@eanattig990 avengers brain rotted internet user
I signed up for babbel to learn Spanish. I got the lifetime access. Thank you for the 60% off access.
I am learning Spanish and Italian, what about you?
I have an undergraduate degree in anthropology and the gentleman who was killed did not learn from those classes to go and do what he did. In reality, this kind of behavior was strongly discouraged.
What do you expect from a religious zealot? He had it coming. Natural selection, I guess.
He did it wrong, you need to take some torture devices with you. He obviously hasn't studied the history of the Catholic Church very well and how they now control the planet. You convert through torture, brainwashing, mind control techniques, etc...
he was definitely had some weird fetish for bringing christianity to native people
I don’t have an anthropology degree or even a huge anthropology interest, but agree and think that most people, and certainly modern anthropology, considers essentially forcing intrusive contact with peoples who clearly don’t want it is hugely discouraged, or outright condemned. And in comments, even many Christians and Evangelicals considered his actions very misguided, even from a missionary standpoint.
So agree that the comment about anthropology courses in the video was unfortunate and likely inaccurate.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! So nice to have a reasoned conversation on UA-cam as that is rather rare.@@Itried20takennames
This is not what I expected. Quality, masterful storytelling, exceptional well curated visuals, but deepest dive, mindbending, existential work like this is next level. Congratulations, you've added new steps to the arc of storytelling, through rising action and climax to existential crisis, then epiphany to empathy. I'm still not sure my words captured the journey, but I do know the cumulative effect was a journey to a new place, a new reality.
🖖😎
You've quickly become one of my favorite channels and this might be one of your best videos to date! I've gone through much of your archive and while your older videos are very interesting there's a clear improvement in editing and quality! Looking forward to the next one
This is of the best documentaries I've seen, and I've watch more than I can count. I'm curious about how such a small group maintains healthy genetic diversity over tens of thousands of years.
You treated the Sentinelese with such respect that I would love a documentary about required diversity from you. In any case, I appreciate your diligent work researching, preparing and presenting this information. Great job!
Thanks for sharing! this was very educational, and some things ARE better left alone!
I don't know how many videos I've watched about this island
But I'll never get tired
This is an excellent documentary about Sentinel Islanders, told in a respectful way. Thank yoou.
These people have always interested me as soon as I had learned of them, but no matter who I was or what kind of research I wanted on these people I would never try to harm them just because I am interested. I am happy they are a protected group. They are so resourceful and must be extremely smart to live in the island conditions.
The ship incident in 1981 is a good metaphor for us chasing away the crew of an alien spacecraft and getting a good look inside marveling at the otherworldly tech.
Created things from the materials
Im 71 and have never ever heard about this island or its people, I found this to most illuminating, both philosophically and culturally. These surely will be the last people living like this i will hear about before i die. Soon, no doubt our planet will be one homogeneous dying world, achieving intellectual precocity, while abandoning critical discourse and realisation of our mutually destructive lifestyle. But thank you so much for this work i hope Stefan enjoyed this too. The ramifications of this video deserve Eric Satie. Once more Thank You Mr North.
May you live long and healthy, Sir
These people have incredible inter-generational memory and I’m sure people getting sick was a huge sign to them that this is not some thing that is safe for them whether they feel we did it intentionally or not. They are very smart.
Inter-generatonal memory is a laughable term.
Yes because life is really slow paced there, their whole universe is their island
@@aliced7505you don't believe in oral tradition?
@@aliced7505why do you think things like snakes spiders and darkness are primal fears
@@aliced7505 you know very well what inter-generational memory means in this context
Best documentary I have watched & enjoyed learning from. Big Applause to the Sentinel people
This is the most I've ever learned about the North Sentinelese. Absolutely awesome. Thanks!
Some of the more sombre-toned music in this is gorgeous, and I'd love a playlist for the music used, please.
the first piano piece is Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1
I love any and all videos like this. Not sure how I feel about contact. As a kid, our school had a large influx of refugees from southeast Asia. The "boat children." Our town was a farm community, a lot of people were foster parents, and language education was already in place because we were on a regular circuit for migrant labor to keep their kids in school as they traveled and harvested. Maybe that's why so many were there, but anyway, some of my friends had been hunter gatherer people. I mean shooting arrows at helicopters, running naked, living like the stone age. They could memorize huge amounts of information without effort, and learning languages was no problem for them, they came here knowing two or three already, so English was a no brainer for them. It's amazing the high intelligence it takes to keep all the knowledge of hunting and gathering wild things in your mind, I wonder if our life style is actually making us dumber. They had varying views about contact, but most of them were glad. Like my one friend was saying the highlight of their day had been bringing in a food source. It took all day, it took everyone. Everything took everyone. And everyone told everyone how great they were at their part, and they were all pretty happy. This was a great way to be, but then she kind of liked hopping into the shower and having hot water. Sort of hard to know if that's a bad thing.
The modern human is a child in comparison to people who live this lifestyle. IT's the most physically and mentally challenging form of existence there is.
@@MrBottlecapBill I mean it's what you know from the environment you've lived within isn't it. I'm pretty sure if you gave a Sentinelese a 9 to 5 job and sat them in traffic for two hours a day they'd want to blow their brains out by the end of the week...
@@MrBottlecapBillDomestication causes all other animals to stay babylike, so of course that affects humans too. We have domesticated ourself and so we become physically and mentally more childlike little by little.
Now is that a bad or a good thing? Probably both depending on exacts.
@@Struudelidomestication makes skull volume shrink too, fwiw
are you really a native English speaker or a bot? your grammar at the end is all over the place 🤔
Amazing job and very interesting video.
Thank you!
they are doing fine without modern intervention.
It is very moving to see a people, like the Sentinals, our ancestors of sorts, still untainted by civilization, and free of this technological world which has come to enslave us. Thank you
i pity them for their ignorance and they are still God's children
@@Jannfndnanakidthey are living free of war and class struggle. No one is getting rich from the land they live on or the food they eat. I think they are doing much better than most of the “civilized” world.
@@travassesyep. Just simply surviving in perpetual balance with nature. No goals, no failures, no expectations, no keeping up with the joneses, no taxes. Just a peaceful simple life
So free that they can't interact with the rest of the world population or they may contract some sickness.
@@travassestribes have classes lol
They have a chieftain and elders and likely others
Humans are naturally class basrd
Honestly it makes me happy that they've been able to keep the rest of the world out. It wouldn't do them much good in the long run to be contacted by outsiders. They'd either be wiped to near extinction immediately from diseases they're not immune to with the surivors to be left impovershed as other nations exploit their island's natural resources for profit. I hope they will continue to keep their island to their community for generations to come. Sure it'd be thrilling to interact and learn more about them, but at what cost?
As someone with a fascination for archery and tribal lifestyle, I hope they maintain this for untold millenia.
Me too. I wish there were more people and cultures who’d survived colonization and conversion
Conversion was and still is a great evil to be infecting remote peoples anywhere. Diseases of the body are bad, but messing with core cultures and spirituality of any indigenous group horrifies me. It reduces the afflicted to poverty, illness, mental accuity, and lifestyle incongruities.
We can make great deductions about them without intrusion. Gifts should never have been made. Such introductions can produce jealousy and greed these people may not be experiencing naturally.
This island's inhabitants sure put a gaping maw in the concept of "unconscious bias."
Yes! They have survived perfectly well on their own for millennia. They do not need a single thing from us - not our material culture, not our technology, and certainly not our ridiculous bullshit religions! Leave them the hell alone.
@@paul6925 Maybe not human but there are small pockets of ancient animals thought to be extinct still alive today
Thanks again for a wonderful service. Aloha from Hawaii
I have been seeing the same few stories about North Sentinel Island for years and finding this here was like a breath of fresh air. I had thought we knew nothing else about them!
You've done a really wonderful job here and I found the whole video quite riveting. I also very much like your voice and tone - it's not often I can listen to a voice speak for 40 minutes without it becoming annoying!
Regarding the inhabitants, I have found myself wondering how it's possible that such a healthy people with, as you said, children, babies and pregnant women, have not overpopulated their small island. Do you have any theories about that, @ North02? Various unsavoury (to me) practices have gone through my mind as I think of how they might keep their population down to fit the space. Would there be dangerous beasts also on land? It seems unlikely. I'm sure death comes from childbirth, pre and post-natal complications, infections from injuries, sharks ... but what else unless there are rituals designed to weed out the weak or otherwise less desirable members?
Well a population can only grow as much as the environment allows so there isn't any need to "cull the herd". Once it reaches the point that there isn't enough food, land etc. to support more people then they won't expand any more. Obviously there are probably periods in which the population is much smaller/larger but it will always default back to the carrying capacity of the land.
Great video. I hope the Sentinelese can continue their private existence without being pestered by self righteous idiots.
I'm sure every tribe has at least one self righteous idiot within itself. It's just without the outside ones.
Stick to coconuts and bananas
@@fainitesbarley2245 That's what they do, and have been doing for hundreds of years. They're holding up good enough, so yeah, I guess they will stick to that diet, and more of course.
This his-story telling began sounding like a lie! But it was a miracle that the shipwrecked crew, made their way back to the ship & fought the natives off with sticks, which saved all of those sailors lives!! But they came back and colonized! Simply Amazing!
@bostonteapartycrasherright?? I want that, too
I really enjoy this video.Thanks for uploading.
Brilliant documentary thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you for the good work North 02 I hung on every word!
This is such an interesting and intellectual video. Thank you for telling the Sentinalese story so beautifully. You’ve earned a new sub and deserve more recognition!
Informative, interesting video. Well done! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication 😁
EXCELLENT video. 👍👍👍
This is by far the best research on the people I've seen yet 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'd love to see how their bows are made. Bows are hard to make using modern draw knives,planes,files and other tools.
The earliest evidence of a bow (that I'm aware of) is 60,000 years old. All it really requires is a knife, a strong tree, and patience.
You should take a boat and go there.
@@Alizudo Yes but those bows are quite crude and do not shoot arrows very far
From Antiquity to the middle ages Bows and arrow making were a skill , much like how guns are manufactured today , the quality of the bow matters alot
@@JcoleMc
It also depends on the materials available. Yew and bamboo are particularly good for making bows out of, and animal muscle makes for especially strong string.
As crude as they may be, discovery of new techniques happens very rapidly in a skill like this; even within a single person's lifetime, the quality of the bows can drastically increase. And when their lifestyles depend on their bows being ready and able at all times, I don't doubt they're quite capable at making them; stone tools be damned.
I'm curious how they've made such bright dyes for their clothes.
I'm far from an asmr guy, I prefer death metal, but I've gotta say you have a very relaxing quality to your orations. Another great one, and it's rad to see that this channel I've watched since 30,000 subs has ten times that now. Only a matter of time before you get that gold play button.
I love watching videos as this, that way I can connect how and when people moved out of Africa through Madagascar, especially for us the Melanesians and the Austronesian.
If I were a professor grading you in an ethnographic film course, I would give you an A+. Bravo and keep it up!
Thanks for the video man, it was very informative.
Fascinating! I've always been intrigued by these people. I hope they get to continue their traditional lifestyles.
They are genetically related to us Indians because neighbouring islands tribes like Jarawa and onge have been tested, they showed clear genetic relations to India
Absolutely. Just leave them alone. They are not bothering anyone. Living there lives and minding their businesses.
@@s.pierre9863 Indians have left them alone, but I don't trust Europeans and others who are trying to disturb them
@@Deira854 that’s good. They deserve to live their lives without interference.
@@Deira854stop all that!! Modern day Indians would probably be making racial slurs about theses people
This is the best video about borth sentinal island. Learned a lot. I thought i knew everything there was to know wbout this subject. Thanks.
Protecting these people is probably the best thing the Indian government has done.
@DivyenduKashyap why is that?
@@jacobesyas9801 they've made it clear that they do not want help, let alone a drastic change in their lives. Besides, look at all the native communities that were "integrated" into western societies. Almost all of them end up poor and have their lives ruined. Also, we could study these people from a distance, perhaps with more covert drones in the future and learn a great deal about hunter-gatherer societies as these people have had very little contact with the outside world, something that is rare among such groups today.
yeah got famous now, but only a hundred or so versus over a billion, island may not last and among lowest laying so would try to find a balance and help with immunity
Probably the least polluted place in the region as a result
@@sureokk not really. There are plenty of places in India that are not polluted.
Indian anthropology professors: make careful trips to North Sentinel Island, leave after realising they're not doing any good
Religious fanatic John Chau, after taking anthropology courses at university:
Chau was a jackass, but he was being manipulated by a Christian organization. I forget the name, but they’ve been likened to a cult.
Ikr... Nevermind the dude purposely put himself in that situation and then basically says to God, I will die if it is your will. God didn't send you to the island you did.
He was really a crazy person to do that.
They also took almost 25 years circling around the island to gain trust
Ok, this one is my favorite video that you've done yet. So damn cool
How about sending a drone to video them? Ethical? Could we learn a lot about the origins of man by watching them from a safe distance via a drone, so as to avoid an encounter that might bring them disease?
Would you want a drone flown by unknown strangers watching you while you're just trying to go about your daily life? Yikes.
@@FabricofTime Well, let’s stay ignorant then, or worse, risk life and limb to learn about them. Any better ideas or just remain ignorant of them? A drone is the least intrusive and least risky thing that we could do to understand this group. Nothing is perfect in life. It’s all about trade-offs.
@@user-fs8tl7ni1wwhy would it be necessary to know exactly how they live? we dont NEED to know everything..
@@amber.4383like I truly don’t understand why people have a hard time with mind their own damn business
You're not entitled to any of that info and whats knowing about them gonna do for you personally in life? Absolutely fucking nothing colonizer 😂@@user-fs8tl7ni1w
It's so fascinating to learn about these isolated tribes. I wonder in what way these people be describing all these encounters with civilization thousands of years advanced then them? In what way the modern world would be a part of thier folklore/mythology?
John is the definition of “f*ck around and find out”
They could have killed him on the first visit .. it took 3 . Three strikes ur out .
The irony is that the Islanders were aiming bows and arrows in his direction, yet he says in his journal that maybe they didn't get the memo, Eh sorry mate, it's you that didn't get the memo!🤣🤣🤣
This is one of the most detailed videos I've seen on this topic, thank you.
This was a really interesting and informative video. I knew about the more recent events, but the early history is horrifying and captivating.
Pretty much every history ever is just “males comitting crimes”. Not that different from the present, actually
great video essay. Have subscribed and can't wait to explore more of your content. This is so well researched and presented. Thanks for helping me discover more about this fascinating island and tribe. Also, you have a great presentation voice. What a find!
I love your videos! Best on youtube by far! I always look forward to new uploads and like them even before i watch, couse i know im gonna love it! Keep up the good work Mr. North02. Soon you'll be the most popular documentary maker on youtube, im sure of it!
Greetings from Norway❤️🤗
2nd time watching this video. Really great presentation. Thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos North02 and any editors behind the scenes. Thank you to the patrons who financially support these channels since UA-cam doesn't.
Love your work. Did NOT expect a laugh out of that coconut mishap.
That's not his knife that he's making a threatening gesture with at 17:13 lol
lol
you are correct 😂
I was thinking the same
I think he said a maximum of 400 people could live on that amount of land and it’s resources. If they have had no new blood for thousands of years we know that at least within their gene pool they are able to sustain a healthy population with these limited numbers. I’m surprised that this is the case. They must all be very closely related. Does anyone know what number of people is generally considered a minimum to maintain a healthy population?
I don't think it's just the number of peopole that matter, even so I think it's around a dozen, how "strong" their genes are also matters. Considering the life they live they probably have a better genetic make-up that most peopole on earth. As a result genetic problems would not arise often, and if they do those unluky children will probably not make it to adulthood, and if they do it's unlikely they'll also have children of their own.
Their island is the same size as Bermuda
The US National Park Service claims 3000 American Bison are required to maintain genetic diversity in the herd in Yellowstone National Park. This herd is thought to be largely derived from a small group of survivors of the slaughter of this species by hide hunters and the US Army implementing US Government policies intended to make the Plains tribes of Native Americans dependent on the government for food ....
Quantitative genetics suggests smaller numbers of breeding adults are required to maintain genetic diversity, but the number required increases dramatically if most of the effective breeding involves a small portion of the individuals of one or both sexes.
@@charleshash4919 free love ❤️, 1960’s style then.
I really enjoyed this and the narrator has such a calming voice
There are many times where I wished I lived such an isolated way of life.
You’d last one week.
I bet they wish they had AC
@@davidswink6653 And indoor plumbing
@@davidswink6653cant possibly miss what you've never had.
I just play animal crossing
First time visiting this channel. It's also the first time I've ever heard about that shipwreck and salvage operation near the island. That's a whole other chapter of the outside contact story that I knew nothing about.
Quality Content as usual Thanks fella.
Wonderful video. Thank you for all of your hard work. Very interesting. The Sentinalese are better left alone. I hope it stays this way. They seem very happy , healthy and fiercely independent.