smart enough? you mean benevolent and generous enough. imagine if we, the modern world, acted as primal in reaction to the death of visitors trying to make contact.they'd be wiped in an hour. they literally live under the mercy of the modern worlds violence, just straight luck no one has decided to turn their island into a vacation resort. as violent as we are with each other, we leave them alone, as if they are some peon below our might. i mean, we tried to study them as if they're a foreign species until it was decided they weren't worth the trouble, just some pest; nothing more than a hornets nest. they sting, but we can do so much more.
This is definitely just generosity and Curiosity. If they were smart than they would try to claim the island and see if they can grab any possible rare resources.
I love how in these videos whenever it’s talking about the history of a place it’s just “they were living and just doing their own thing for hundreds of years” “then the British arrived”
i love the idea that there are humans on this earth who have no idea what modern earth is and are living like they did 1000s of years ago, its so fascinating
@@CordeliaWagner yea because they sure eat a lot of sugar that destroys their teeth .. their hygiene is probably fine if they're still alive on that tiny island
They did it to protect themselves from the diseases we carry! I just wish we could establish a lasting communication with them some day. Maybe in a Master Chief suit or something. Hermetically sealed, but protected. Dang. Just fascinating. I understand their story, and anything that comes to the island is a foreign invader and must be killed. Including our gifts. And anyone that leaves is tainted and would destroy the sanctity of the island's society and would probably be killed, too, if they ever came back. I would love to glimpse their funerary rituals. Just a shame we can't co-exist in some way. In some ways, though, I envy them. I definitely admire them. In some ways, they were the smart ones. They have a treasure of secret history and stories that are only for them, and they guard them with their lives. Because otherwise, they wouldn't be unique.
Can you imagine what it was like for the Sentinelese when they first boarded the Primrose? It had to have been to them like if an alien ship landed here and we were the first to board her. Imagine the awe, yet pure fear they must have experienced.
I think it is really commendable of India to spend time,money and effort into protecting an island and its way of life with nothing selfish or worldly to gain.. They could have denounced it or done the bare minimum but they show real care towards the situation Edit : I am indian and sorry this sounded like i am talking in 3rd person. I praised my own country and i think that can be done without being a nationalist. This would be my opinion had any country done it. I hate my corrent government and will take the front seat in critising it. I think it is possible to praise and criticize different aspects of the same nation, nuance people nuance !!
You're right. Any Western country would have integrated the Sentinelese people into their culture by force, but India respects their desire to be left alone by, well, leaving them alone. And observing them from a distance.
@@DCBikerR1 Different circumstances, if north sentinel island wasnt an island, and was just part of india or any other country, it wouldve been colonized with the rest of the world way back when. The sheer vastness of the water around them and dense forest on the island gives them security. Dont get me wrong we as a civilization are sparing them. we could easily use air superiority and demolish them.
*Barbaric murders are indeed "super cool", good thing they're been "preserved"...* *The level or cretinism of some comments on here is off the charts.* 🤦🤦♂🤦♀
@@frontenac5083What they do isn't much different from border patrol shooting on sight around Mexico. Heck, they have more valid reasons for doing what they do than what border patrol has. The last time they accepted foreigners on their island, the foreigners kidnapped their children (led by Maurice Vidal Portman). If you want to see savage murders, go see the ongoing situation with the Uighur camps in China.
It will always baffle me how Chau thought he could convert the whole island when he didn't even know enough to say "There once was a man named Jesus" in Sentinelese.
At least he tried. He was likely hoping to spend enough time with them to begin learning pieces of their language. Considering that the single most important calling Christianity has is to spread the gospel to all people of the earth and give them a chance to convert, he believed his faith and calling were more important than the laws forbidding access.
No not really it's more God forbid they don't worship my special deities so therefore I need to save them. And forget how that went with native Americans just opened a history book .I don't think any of us really enjoyed being a displaced and buried under a school for Forced integration.
They are made up of individuals, each with their own opinion. 'A people' don't have one unified opinion, it might be the majority opinion, or the opinion of the leadership, but I'm sure there are individual variations, and probably individuals that don't agree at all.. you know like with all groups of humans
i’m curious about how they explain all this within their own culture/lore. I can only imagine they tell mythical stories of themselves being visited by strange creatures and beings
I like to think that maybe they think of the other people as just another small island tribe, they really have NO idea of how unfathomably big the world and population is, they're so disconnected from the human civilization
"So yeah, basically these assholes keep coming over and abducting and diseasing us, so if you ever see some weirdos come by, just angrily wave a stick at them and they'll usually piss right off back where they came from."
yes. they'd say they were visited by mud bloods and that our impurity made it difficult for them to get past the charms protecting the island. their personal power was lost making them vulnerable. they'd say we are dependent on materials.
17:21 it may be..abit more naive than my usual thoughts, but I hope that last positive interaction made for some kind of “okay there are nice ones out there” kind of stories among them
The presence of a woman made it clear that they weren't being raided by a war party, but visited by another people. Such things really matter to a people with honed survival instincts.
This is so racist. “Ok there are nice ones” be for fcking real. When have white people ever shown us the empathy and understanding you want THEM to feel? No one needs to show kindness to a colonizer. That’s how the rest of us got caught up in this colonial nightmare.
With lots of coconuts! The ONE guy who successfully visted them (more than once or twice) and SURVIVED just spent the first few years not getting too close to the island, just throwing coconuts towards it. After a few YEARS of this (might have been as long as a decade or more) they finally decided he was cool enough to hang with to some extent... EDIT: The man's name was Mr Pandit (The BBC article didn't give an actual first name just initials... T M, I believe)
Can you imagine how terrifying it would be for them if they don't have pigs on their island and we gifted them a pig. It would be like seeing an alien.
@@marcoAKAjoe so if aliens from space landed in new york with some "food" you're telling me you would be all, "oh yum sign me the fuck up for whatever that shit is"
It’s fascinating to imagine what stories they might be telling each other about the outside invaders and the abducted children who returned bearing gifts (and probably curses). Peak myth-making material right there.
@@Balletified Usually the civilization of hunting people tend to believe some sort of animism. So I suppose they can not understand the concept of Christianity, or similar religion in our society after all.
Nonsense. If it were the case that evidence of natural gas or gold or any other valuable commodity were found in the island, the Indian government would throw ethics to the air.
@@burieddreamer Many countries would throw ethics to the wind regardless, so just giving some credit where due. Don't understand how that is triggering but here we are.
I wonder if they'll ever create boats one day that are able to travel to Port Blair and discover our world. It would be extremely interesting to see how they react to real knowledge of the outside world.
I wonder if there is a single one of them that's curious about what's beyond their world and one day they venture out and see, then go back and inform the others.
I'm from Port Blair, thank you for this video. People usually think that Port Blair isn't developed at all. Even I learnt a lot from your video, I wasn't aware of all the history about Sentinal Island.
Does G5 or G3 reach until Sentinel Island? I mean once could run a private G5 hub on a boat close to sentinenl Island and observe them with solar drones. Or have a solar powered drone do a waypoint mission and capturing video material that could be viewed when the drone returns from the waypoint mission.
The story of the ship crashing near the island and then them getting attacked by mysterious people they didn't know existed would make an amazing horror film
I hadn't known how close the island is to Port Blair. 25 km would simply be the next county over for me, I could drive it in 20 minutes. That close to the modern world but still separate.
Yeah, I never knew either. And to put it into a sea distance comparison it's nearly 50% closer than the closest point between Dover (England) and Calais (France). *And we can see the French coast from Dover on a clear day.*
That's literally Did you watch the same video the rest of us did? The Sentinelese tried to shoot them the first like 40 times they tried. It took them years to get to the point that they could make contact The fact that madhumala and pandit made it so close is that they were persistent unlike others Plus idk about this "sensing it" nonsense I think leaving gifts on their beaches for YEARS was a pretty good indication
@@harveyspecter111 Indeed, women are usually not warriors in tribal societies. Sure, the male warriors may teach their wives and daughters how to protect themselves and their children, but women are too valuable to endanger them to random hostility. You do not take a woman to a war party, and that was the unspoken language of group composition.
@samstromberg5593 the people leaving gifts though could have still left contact heath issues as they were in contact with those gifts. And what about any germs on that ship?
i DESPERATELY want to know their history and stories and mythos. i know they want to be left alone, and i respect that. i don’t think anyone should go there. but my god do i want to know about them.
@@rey273 It's amazing to think they seem to be an isolated group of survivors from the first wave of people who left Africa. Just insane to think about their history. Other groups became adapted to their surroundings, so turned into what we know perceive to be Indians, Thai, Japanese etc. But these guys were perfectly adapted to tropical island life from the start.
Madhumala Chattopadhyay actually made peaceful contact in the 90s and was allowed to help with food prep and watch after the children. Her approach was really smart and it probably helped that she was a woman. The Sentinelese women welcomed her and treated her like one of their own.
As another replier has already said you should delete this comment to help not give other evangelists and missionaries sources or ideas of what they should do next time another one of them think ita a good idea to contact this tribe
@@user-kf7tt2vk6t I am not an arbiter I am merely a scientist and someone who has traveled a good portion of this planet. Please tell me then why these people need to be evangelised?
I love how north sentinel island is all deadly and scary while south sentinel island looks exactly same but instead of deadly tribes it has red lobster
Dad walks into the room, unbuttons his jean shorts to give his beer-belly some extra room, taps himself on the stomach and says: "I dunno, boy, I've had a few deadly tribes of red lobster in my day. Mhm."
How they respond and ponder on the visitors is actually how we respond to some things we cant explain in modern world. 😂 their discussion on how outsiders are demonic is what some of us also thought of an UFO.
Given the way the Japanese military behaved in the Second World War, it’s interesting that they didn’t completely wipe out all of the North Sentinel islanders. Though maybe the islanders were smart enough to hide in the jungle and the Japanese thought it just wasn’t worth the time and effort to hunt them all down.
@Katie McMullen Indian musIims? Hahah your so called "Indian" musIims collaborated with British and as a gift British partitioned india and gave them Pakistan and Bangladesh.
What’s really insane is that we’re all communicating to eachother about this civilization from multiple points on the planet, while their means of communication is limited to in person.
Re Communication, Which is better? For them its unnecessary as everything is right there. For us, the same tech we use for convenience and entertainment is also used to spy on and control us. A golden leash.
He didn't go to spread peace. He went to indoctrinate a tribe into his religion. It wasn't even 100 years ago Christians raped & tortured native american children in Canada. And many years ago would attempt genocide on any race/culture that did not convert Glad he died, I hope it was painful & slow. If Christians found this island before anyone, this tribe would be dead.
Because you do not have imagination.Because you are fake.Because you have sold your soul to good quality rectangular papers called currencies. ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
I believe the aggression towards outsiders might be driven by the fear of competition for limited food on their island. Their population size is likely limited by the available food resources, resulting in a delicate balance between population and sustenance. This interplay between population and food availability could further contribute to their defensive behavior towards potential competitors.
Meeting outsiders with violence is probably the key to their survival. History is filled with people who tolerated or helped newcomers only to be wiped out by that group after they set up shop and reinforcements.
I find this very racist. They don't have the right to own the island and decide who can settle there. There are no indigenous peoples, we all come from Africa. And with global warming, migration is inevitable.
That island is basically when you forget that some of your units were off on a random patch of land in Civ, and you didn't upgrade them because of that.
I think it's amazing enough that a professional anthropologist and his team were able to make even cordial meetings with these guys as their life's work. Regardless of how we write our laws, these are a sovereign people at the head of their own nation state rightfully concerned about the dangers of outside contact, and I think that's the most we can hope from our contact.
Dude , no need to be harsh, the Indian government did quarantine off for a reason, they are last surviving group of untouched (or mostly untouched) hunter gatherers of the tropical islands
Knowing our technology I don’t know how people ever got killed well yeah cause they were definitely not smart, you could use a knight armor and never die from an arrow cause you know that’s what they were designed for and still be peaceful, just prepared with gas or some other non deadly crowd defusing tools and carry a set of scrolls telling them in visual language that you’re not hostage and that diseases were the real danger but that’s why you have a mask or something like that to prevent spreading disease
@@Waff3n Would need a drone that could fly at least 6 miles on a single charge and then some so they could capture some footage and hope it isn't shot down.
With the Indian navy patrolling the outskirts - makes you wonder if alien starships are patrolling the outer solar system, keeping other aliens from visiting us due to humanity’s warlike nature.
@@KarolOfGutovo Roswell!! Nah I have no idea if that story is true, but I have seen weird stuff in the sky that could basically only be alien technology. The truth... is out there! ...and apparently aliens. Aliens are out there.
@Curio it could support way more than 200. No accurate number of the population is known but the island can support way more than 200. Also tribes don't mean hundreds of people necessarily it could be a tribe of about 40-70 then another bigger Tribe or other smaller tribes or just one big group of hundreds.
@Curio Those statistics actually make it rather impressive that the Sentinelese have managed to keep that balance for so long. SOOOOOOOOO frequently humans mess up in small spaces like that, to include Polynesian explorers on Rapa Nui, for instance.
that is a perfect idea because of 1 thing they are scared of man like you know how they were more accepting of a woman that makes sense to us because we know historically it was always man that went to war but if they are alone on the island as 1 tribe who would be warring with them and why would they know that man mean war
Kudos to India for respecting and protecting this isolated and unique culture. I do not wish John Allen Chau any disrespect or ill will, but his actions were an embarrassment to himself and our society. May he RIP.
Nothing embarrassing about his actions. It's not like he wasn't aware that he might be killed. He went there with full knowledge that he most likely would. He was also warned to not go there. Nothing embarrassing about his actions or even weirdly, to our society, whatever the heck you mean by that. No one here, from the Sentinelese, John Chau, the Indian govt, the fisherman, society - literally nothing was embarrassing about anyone here
We call it "small" but he gives the size comparison in the video it's the size of manhattan. Of course it isn't overpopulated like NYC but that's still thousands of people.
The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that extablishing communication with Japanese Army officials is almost as hard as contacting the Sentinelese
As IJA officers and soldiers rather kill and die rather than having contact with you. That is how they are zealots to the Jesus wannabe sitting on the Chrysanthemum Throne somewhere in Tokyo.
Those people want to be left alone and India seems to respect that, and so should we. If they ever decide to contact us, I hope we have reached a level where we don't try to force our world on them. Until that happens, they seem to do just fine on their own.
If only the Western nations were shown that same respect and courtesy. They seem to maintain a racially intolerant ethnostate and the same people who shrug it off as "hate" for Western nations seem to tout the importance of being left alone from outsiders from them
The one good thing I'll say about John Chau's attempt to visit was that he was aware that he could be killed and that if it did happen he neither blamed them nor wanted anyone to try to recover his body.
I have to wonder what their history and legends say about the rest of us, and whether they know the Indian patrols are there for their own sake and not just to spy. But these people have the right idea to keep living in a tight knit community and I'm glad there's been SOME peaceful contact. But the way human nature goes, those stories might not last as long as the ones about the abductions in the 1800s.
I just looked on Google earth, and sure enough, found the shipwreck! How cool. I love that there are still some remote, ancient cultures that are largely untouched by modern technology! I am fascinated by the lifestyles of supposedly "primitive people", who have mastered survival in places that most of us would quickly perish! I hope that these people will continue to be protected from the outside world. Just knowing that they are there, and truly free, makes my heart glad!
They're basically prisoners on an island. They're only free in the sense they don't pay taxes, or are at risk of being sent to prison for non payment of rent. But I think being in modern society and being able to buy a steak when you feel like it is much better than being stuck naked on an island.
@@genericscout5408 That is the only life they have ever known, and they choose to preserve it. No racism, no street gangs, no drugs, no taxes, no getting stuck in traffic. In some way I envy their lifestyle.
@@buckbuchanan4902 They have plenty of racism it leads to immediate death. Their society is merely small enough where they don't deal with warfare is all.
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation No, I don't want that lifestyle. I do envy aspects of it and I greatly respect it, but I also appreciate many modern advances. My ideal lifestyle would be isolated on a large island, but still have internet to research, keep in contact with relatives, watch movies, etc.
My question simply is how did this person think he would communicate with the tribe? Did he think language or gestures or drawings would get through to them? Just so many questions arise as to how he felt he could " spread the word".
Missionaries are usually taught how to record and learn a new language from scratch. Like Dan Everett did with the Pirahã people. There are standardized methods and procedures to do so.
@@mateozanone7216 - A woman _might_ have had a chance of at least being taken in and not murdered. But alien men are clearly seen as dangerous by the Sentinelese. The kid should have figured that out from research.
The only way to contact these people is, unfortunately, knock down several of them, to show some respect, then you will have the attention, but there is no reason to do that.
@@cacogenicist there have been countless aggressive tribes and indigenous people who have been reached by missionaries and successfully turn to cristianity, it just takes time to gain their trust. That being said, it was CLEARLY stupid to go to the sentinelese as unprepared as this guy was. I also do not like the work of missionaries and religious groups as a whole whatsoever
I like that quote. “We cannot be said to have done anything more than increase their general terror of, and hostility to, all comers.” Even if explorer’s intentions are good, disturbing the Sentinelese people does more harm than good. Let them live in peace.
And what net benefit is it to integrate them into our society? None. They want to be left alone and it's a small island. It's not like North Sentinel Island is some giant ass continent with some natural resources, ergo economic incentive. It's just a small island with a people who want to be left alone, so why not leave them alone?
Madhumala Chattopaadhyaay has more inspiring story and she deserves a little more time in this video. She accomplished something great which other team members didn't and that story of meeting with the sentinelese is something worth sharing.
@@ArtyMars lol little more mention of a person who contributed in making of that history is not individual story. Is that too hard to grasp? Not smart enough?
Father was born and raised in the Andaman Islands. He often told me stories of the Sentinelize, and the Jarawa. Hope to visit the Islands one day, just not that one!
What’s really insane is that we’re all communicating to eachother about this civilization from multiple points on the planet, while their means of communication is limited to in person.
Yeah, exactly. The Spanish Conquistadors weren’t sick from diseases when they set foot in the new world. They were so immunised against diseases that the diseases existed within them without any symptoms. These germs then hopped on to the indigenous populations, wiping them out. 11 days is never enough. Some Germs live in the human body for life.
as someone who basically majored in anthropology at community college, North Sentinel Island is one of the most fascinating places on Earth to me. if i ever really went into that field, i WOULD love to go there and study them, but i value my own life and those the Sentinelese more than i value what i could learn there :P hopefully we WILL be able to learn at least SOMETHING more about them in the future with everything ending well for everyone involved.
we all know that nothing good when outsiders come in. That island would probably be converted into a beach resort if we ever let the rest of the world step in. the only way we'll ever get on this island is if they ever go fully extinct
@@antiquefuturistic I haven't had pay television for 8 years. Precisely because of the amount of crap you're piping into your house at a premium price.
Hindustan: “Leave them alone and at peace, please.” 🧘🏽♀️🙏🏽🕉️ Christians: 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️ “They don’t know better, we are here to correct them.” Sentinelese: 🏹🏹🏹💀
@@rohitchaoji Not if you’re just floating in the water. You could slip right past anybody. Its almost impossible to spot a human in the water from a boat in the open sea even if you’re looking for them.
Damn I will literally be shaking and sweating and I might catch a heart attack if I even see they spot me on that beach I will swim away into the ocean until the end as a black man the sentinels is scary asf just look at how these guys looks I rather drown than they kill me
@@sarsvfx If they don't kill you there may be a extremely small chance that they see you as some kind of god if you happen to heal a sick member of the tribe....
I'm fascinated by their language, considering it's basically an alien language. Its last common ancestor with any other language is 10s of thousands of years ago, meaning that it's basically unintelligible to us. But I'm sure it'd be fascinating to study, if anyone could actually get that chance. The stories they could tell must be fascinating. Their folklore, religion, and beliefs about the outside world. And what they know or believe about their own history.
@@ThePrufessa I never said they did. You however seem completely offended by the suggestion that these people might have religious beliefs, in which case I invite you to fuck off. I can only assume you're one of those people who brags about being an atheist and think it makes you smarter than everyone else.
@@ThePrufessa You're right. But, probabilistically they have a religion. Most underdeveloped societies do or did. When you don't have an explanation backed by science you make it up. I won't say that ancient civilizations all had religions but we'd be hard pressed to find an example let alone 2.
@@MuchWhittering first of all how does the comment I said make me "seem" offended by anything you have said? Perhaps you have a problem with your reading comprehension. You should work on that before engaging in dialogue in UA-cam comments.
Im living in Port Blair ...Studying Marine Biology ... I can tell you one thing for sure that ..The kind of atrocities done with these Aboriginals by British were horrible . Many local contacts and modern jarwah tribe people said that very Inhumane and Barbaric British acts on these islands ; made these sentinalies people hate us . AND THE SENTINALIES COUPLE YOU MENTIONED KIDNAPPED BY PORTMAN WAS ACTUALLY ABDUCTED FOR THE STUDY OF ANATOMY OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBE AND BOTH TRIBAL MOTHER AND FATHER WERE BRUTALLY KILLED BY MISSIONARIES FOR THE SAME IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN...That's the triggering point of history where actual conflicts starts in between SENTINALIES and SO CALLED MODERN CIVILISED PEOPLE.
Damn i wish they at least didnt make the kids go back to the island where they would tell how bad we were,instead they could have more protection make them learn english and wait a couple of years to settle that way(without killing their parents tho💀)
The Christmas Tsunami had a major effect on the island, raising large areas of surrounding reef above sea level, thus enlarging the island. Helicopter footage verified that the islanders as a whole survived the tsunami. No one knows what the islanders thought of the event, or how many were killed.
I’m not sure if it’s true, but supposedly the often used photo from above of the islander shooting into the air with a bow is from a helicopter survey shortly after the tsunami, to see if they had survived. I can just imagine the crew’s perspective. “Hmm I don’t see anything… Oh shit, arrows! Mission accomplished, they’re fine, let’s get out of here!”
Impossible to know if the "successful and friendly" contacts did not later have repercussions with the tribe regarding illness. Contagions present on the gifts even could cause a severe plague of illness for the tribe. So have a think about the association they might make from that.. ultimately the most likely outcome of contact is to be trusted even less
Most likely option would be that they might have gone through heavy sanitization before making the contact. This was a team of experienced professional anthropologists
@@keerthichandra376 professional anthropologists that had never had contact before with isolated human organisms on that level. You can't disinfect everything. People sweat, people breath, people urinate, and defecate. If you are immune to something you carry that is innocuous to yourself mere exposure of yourself to someone that isn't is potentially a case for transmission. They didn't go there in hazmat suits! The fact is they easily could have spread something totally harmless to them to the island inhabitants and as such would be seen as bringers of death in the eyes of the natives. professional or not it could have happened
Interesting - had no idea about this place. One picky point - just because they are using some iron/metal stuff left behind doesn't mean they have been "catapulted into the Iron Age". The Iron Age involved humans noticing iron ore in the ground, digging it out and developing techniques for smelting and shaping it.
I've heard that on all contacts after that they were observed to be using iron tipped arrows and spears, so they seem to have figured out the usefulness and made the transition pretty quickly. Impressive
It would be an interesting path to give them useful technology in small pieces and invoke changes to the place, but it would take generations to do it carefully.
Hey RealLifeLore, I would be really interested to see a video exploring what happens to a embassies when their home country has a coup, takeover, or ceases to exist. For example, when the Taliban retook Afghanistan, what happened to the country's ambassadors and staff serving abroad? Could be a very interesting topic to look into.
I think it's good to leave them be. It's strange that people talk about 'studying them' like they're some sort of specimen. They're also just people. I also have a lot of questions and am curious about their culture and way of life but they are entitled to their privacy on their own land.
You’re taking it too literally. By “studying them”, we mean studying their language, culture, religion, way of life, etc. We already know they are human and share the same anatomy.
@@YungGaucho you are wrong. It does create a notion of treating them like a specimen. They want no parts of the modern world and people are still trying to invade their world. We have seen this in history repeatedly and it’s always Black people…you must have missed the history about slavery for 400 years on the continent of Africa. Women being used as projects for surgeries without anesthesia. People should not be use for research projects and projects that directly impact those living in poverty which are typically people of color.
@@LovelyBee-e5g first of all, don’t act like Africans weren’t slavers themselves. There were plenty of African tribes that enslaved their rivals like the Dahomey people. These things were going on long before European slavers arrived in Africa. I mean, who do you think sold them the slaves? OTHER AFRICANS. Not to mention the word Slave comes from Slav, a predominately white group of people that was enslaved for a long period of time. Secondly, nobody is treating them like a “specimen”. As I said before, we already know they are humans, therefore we already understand their anatomy. By “studying them”, we mean studying their culture, language, social hierarchy, religion, etc. And who wouldn’t be interested in that? It is one of the last remaining tribes sealed off from the modern world. It’s like taking a look into our own past! There’s a treasure trove of knowledge that we can gain from them. And if you’re paying attention, they’re already under the protection of the Indian government. Their wishes are already being respected.
My professor at NID who was teaching Social and Liberal Arts was in that boat during 1992, he showed us multiple videos which were never released. Super interesting!
I just went to look at this on Google Earth and holy crap, I've never seen such a densely forested area before. I guess that's what a real forest is supposed to look like. But it's no wonder nobody knows much about it trying to study it from the air.
Indian govt know that . They have complete data . Some of their brothers from different island has accepted modern life . They know hindi language of Indians
The Basque people aren't isolated like the Sentinelese but the Basque have a language not connected to any known Earthly language. They also have the highest percentage of rhesus negative blood in the Basque region. I researched them because I am also rhesus negative.
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation Negative blood types. We lack a specific antigen that everyone else has. Also, Positive blood types are iron based while negative types are copper based.
Kudos to Indian government who respects humanity more than British & Japanese! Sentinel Islands is not just a piece of land to go grab, its the people!
Imagine a ship coming down to earth who are actually a bunch of friendly aliens trying to make contact with humans but we are terrified of them and start attacking. That's how it is from their POV! Live and let live!
I think thought that if that was to happen we wouldn’t fight straight away yes we’d be terrified but I’m sure the ppl doing it would wait about 6 seconds and if they are hostile then kill them but let’s be real who said aliens can die to bullets 😅
@@hunterbodine6989 what makes you make that statement? The island is the size of manhatten so its plenty large to sustain much more life than 200 persons.
I don’t understand people that want to go there, just leave them alone, they showed us that they don’t want any contact with the outside world and we have to respect that
Pandit and his crew most likely visited a chill tribe, with the other modern encounters being with a violent warlike tribe(s). Or after physically interacting with the Sentinelese and infecting them, outsiders were again to be killed on-sight.
Idk about that chill tribe and war tribe part. It sounds like they’re all just one big tribe. But I bet they infected them, which made them hostile to visitors once more. Since these sentinelese were most probably not alive when their predecessors were killed by infections and only heard tales of it
@@dhananjaysguitarcovers9296 It's foolish for you to assume that you understand the dynamics of the population in an uncontacted island. You know nothing whatsoever about their culture or their beliefs.
@@SamBrickell you’re right, I don’t. I thought I made it clear I was just speculating. But yeah it’s entirely possible the tribe has factions that are hunters and others that are not
I've always been fascinated by this island after learning about it. Not enough to want to go visit it in person obviously, but enough to be intrigued by one of the last groups of humans who have gone largely uncontacted through human civilization as a whole. I wonder what kinds of interactions that the tribe must've had that wasn't recorded that would cause them to essentially turn anyone who wasn't one of them into a boogeyman. It's possible some of them were kidnapped by pirates and slave raiders, or diseases were spread by others who were castaways back on wooden ships, and who knows what the Imperial Japanese Army did to them during WW2. But I'll bet someone who lived through it talked about pale skinned men who could breathe fire and burned the jungle alive.
@@darkeningfyre actually it would work if it was dropped down from jets above. you're not that naive to believe that we have no technology for this situation are you?
@@blackglitter1474 Yeah just fucking knockout bomb the entire damn island wasting expensive incapacitating agents instead of, y'know, sending in one of the US military's tiny little surveillance drones to study them
I agree. Let them seek help on their own if and when they need it. I am however curious about the geography/nature of the island… has me wondering if there weren’t enough natural resources to exploit that made it easier for the gov’t to simply leave them alone
It's most likely the only reason they haven't managed to get technology on their own, since maybe they have no *exposed* iron on the surface, or probably not copper either. I don't even think they have fire either, since you need quite special rocks for that and they might not have those.
@@Bryan48950 They probably don't have knowledge of how to make it, due to the fact we can clearly see the island is really small and with few resources needed to make a fire.
12:04: Triloknath Pandit Pandit, T. N. (1985). The Tribal and Non-Tribal in Andaman Islands: A historical perspectives. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 20:111-131. Pandit, T. N. (1990). The Sentinelese. Kolkata: Seagull Books. Pandit, T. N. & Chattopadhyay, M. (1989). Meeting the Sentinel Islanders: The Least Known of the Andaman Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 24:169-178.
First time the missionary showed up the Sentinelese drove him off, the second time they shot an arrow into the bible he was holding up, the third time they killed him. It's not like they didn't warn him and make it clear he wasn't wanted there
There are at least 11 groups living in the Amazon in Peru who, like the Andamon Islanders do not ever want contact with the outside world. There are people who are less adamant about contact and these people protect the Peruvian Amazonians from contact and work for restoration of the Amazon in Peru. I recently discovered that on BBC.
I guess the only relatively effective way to study their tribe without loss of human life is to deploy a spider drone that can blend itself into the environment that can record & send footage of how the sentinels behave, communicate etc. Right in the heart of the island
I wonder if music was ever considered as a way to communicate with them. The only good reason I think there is to contact them would be to learn from them and establish contact in case there was a catastrophic event that threatened to wipe them out. Definitely better to leave them alone though as opposed to risking further harm. What a fascinating phenomena. I also wonder if thermal imaging has been done to get a sense of how many people there are and what their communities look like? It's interesting to compare our relationship with the Sentinelese like a more advanced alien civilization to us. It makes the dark forest theory from the three body problem seem less absolute, like maybe there are good aliens who are just curious what we're like and don't actually want to wipe us out. North Sentinel island is fascinating.
When Tsunami occurred we were worried if they were okay and a helicopter was sent to check and a lone man with bow and arrow came out proving they survived
I've watched quite a few videos on this and you're the only one to mention the Japanese encounter during WW2. Considering the atrocities they commited during the Second Sno Japanese War.. i wouldn't blame the tribe for hating all of the outside world. The fact that all the documents about their encounter have been destroyed means we will never know the true horrors forced opon them. If anyone reads this comment and isnt familiar with the Second Sno Japanese War, look it up, its insane and not a "conspiracy theory" thing. It actually happened Edit: Spelling
Honestly for them, on one island, all of them probably just looking out for each other, it would probably be incomprehensible how much landmass there is, how many different cultures, and that most of us don't wish them harm. For all they know, the rest of humanity could be consolidated to the other Andaman Islands and the one peaceful contact was just some rogue group while the rest of the world is trying to infect them
I think the only way we'd have a chance of picking up their language would be if we were able to do some kind of drone surveillance that would go completely unnoticed AND would be highly sanitized the same way we sanitize our Mars probes. I do think there's value in learning more about their language and way of life but ONLY if it can be done in a totally non-interfering way. That way we might have something to say in the event of an accident or crisis.
@@martinalewis2844 Anything noticeable, I would consider interference as I stated above. So if anything we could try currently would still be noticeable in any way to the Sentinelese then I would say no.
Value? Very subjective. Modern humans split the atom almost a century ago. These people do not even have agriculture. At most, you’ll know another language.
They don't want contact, so steer well clear, unless you want to get riddled with arrows. It'd be interesting to see how they'd react to the drop off of a big mirror, a couple of unpeeled bananas, and a box of matches. But it's not worth risking your life for !
If visitors visit them ,there may be any disease,which they were not aware and they cleared from this world. That's why our Indian government is strictly prohibited to visit this location.🙂 And i as an indian, support this .
By German standards the old version of the video would not have gotten any age restrictions. Non-sexualized nudity is considered absolutely fine here. Likely similar in many other countries, just not in the USA. There, for some reason nudity is a concern, but violence isn't (or at least way less). TBH doesn't make much sense to me.
It's good to see the Indian government is giving them privacy, by banning any intervention from the outside world cuz technically they are Indians even though they don't know so, it's the Indian government's duty to do that and they are doing it. good!
But now these dangerous Christian missionaries are trying concert them to their deadly cult. History has shown that wherever christianity and middle eastern cults spread, destruction of the native followed.
Ironically, given the state of the modern world, the events that led to their isolation is probably the best thing that happened for them. The island provides everything they need. In the modern world needing something is often the result of having something. People feel they need a mobile, but before mobiles existed, nobody need one
@@ChoCoMoCo69 Destroyed??? Living in Iraq now is way better than living under Saddam who gassed whole villages and locked up and murdered anybody critisizing him. Also this has nothing to do with the topic at hand. We are talking about people who dont know how to make fire.
Imagine if a missioner kept trespassing in your home while possible carrying a deadly disease you're not immune to. They had a lot of patience actually.
What's weird is that if they were shown for example a picture drawing of a village from like the 14th century, they would likely still be confused and surprised and might perceive even that as a "modern world", so imagine if we actually did bring the tribe over to lets say, New York or London or Madrid imagine their reactions. In my opinion if we want to maintain this tribe we should just leave them alone, cause like you said bringing that elderly Sentinelese couple over to Port Blair and them getting sick and dying is just proof that this tribe should be left alone, so when the tribe attacks us for going there, we shouldn't be surprised at all.
I don't think that they became trapped but rather that some chose (or were forced) to stay. The sea levels would have risen slowly enough for those willing to cross over to the mainland
ehhh, they were 'trapped', but not in our modern understanding of the term. Don't take everything literally. Back then they didn't know that the sea levels were slowly rising and that they would not go down. Those groups mixed with other tribes from the islands, it is just that the tribes on Sentinel Island had their own territory and simply at one point stopped mixing with other islands since each year the crossing was more and more difficult + unnecessary. They are trapped in a sense that they can't get out if they wanted to because their ancestors populated the land; and are a very interesting singular genetic group
I wonder if it's possible to record audio from a distance to study their language? I think it would be so interesting to learn how they live without actually making contact.
Definitely not with our current tech. Though I can conceptualize robotic birds and insects would be very effective, if they could be developed and convincingly disguised.
Well, RIP the old video. This time it includes all the nudity blurred out, so hopefully UA-cam won't demonetize and age-restrict it this time around.
Lol
UA-cam doesn't want us to know the truth
Ahh ok I thought I was losing my mind deja vu or something 😂
God damn
was able to watch it yesterday even without singing in
I love the fact that these people exist and that the Indian government is smart enough to leave them alone.
smart enough? you mean benevolent and generous enough. imagine if we, the modern world, acted as primal in reaction to the death of visitors trying to make contact.they'd be wiped in an hour. they literally live under the mercy of the modern worlds violence, just straight luck no one has decided to turn their island into a vacation resort. as violent as we are with each other, we leave them alone, as if they are some peon below our might. i mean, we tried to study them as if they're a foreign species until it was decided they weren't worth the trouble, just some pest; nothing more than a hornets nest. they sting, but we can do so much more.
@@SushiMane01 stfu and leave them alone. They are probably much happier without the this our world crap
This is definitely just generosity and Curiosity. If they were smart than they would try to claim the island and see if they can grab any possible rare resources.
@Irrelevant Oaf that wouldn't be smart at all, that would just be evil
@@laneyking2044 evil can be smart though.
I love how in these videos whenever it’s talking about the history of a place it’s just “they were living and just doing their own thing for hundreds of years”
“then the British arrived”
The British basically won the real life game of risk 😂
So the British Empire was the real life Fire Nation 😅
**"RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES"**
Imagine how better this world would've been without those fu*king brits 😒
Lol..bro read some history
i love the idea that there are humans on this earth who have no idea what modern earth is and are living like they did 1000s of years ago, its so fascinating
Fascinating like no medicine.
Imagine a rotting teeth in your mouth and no chance to make the pain go away.
They do know what modern Earth is; it is the Earth they are standing on
@@CordeliaWagner yea because they sure eat a lot of sugar that destroys their teeth .. their hygiene is probably fine if they're still alive on that tiny island
I suspect they know more about us than we know about them.
They did it to protect themselves from the diseases we carry! I just wish we could establish a lasting communication with them some day. Maybe in a Master Chief suit or something. Hermetically sealed, but protected. Dang. Just fascinating. I understand their story, and anything that comes to the island is a foreign invader and must be killed. Including our gifts. And anyone that leaves is tainted and would destroy the sanctity of the island's society and would probably be killed, too, if they ever came back. I would love to glimpse their funerary rituals. Just a shame we can't co-exist in some way. In some ways, though, I envy them. I definitely admire them. In some ways, they were the smart ones. They have a treasure of secret history and stories that are only for them, and they guard them with their lives. Because otherwise, they wouldn't be unique.
Can you imagine what it was like for the Sentinelese when they first boarded the Primrose? It had to have been to them like if an alien ship landed here and we were the first to board her. Imagine the awe, yet pure fear they must have experienced.
Except they died of diseases before they could tell their stories to the tribe
@@Twocat5sidethe kids didn't
and then their parents died and all they got was unexplainable "curses" (diseases), and some lousy gifts.
I see what you mean. The amount of curiosity that day was through the roof!!!
I think it is really commendable of India to spend time,money and effort into protecting an island and its way of life with nothing selfish or worldly to gain.. They could have denounced it or done the bare minimum but they show real care towards the situation
Edit : I am indian and sorry this sounded like i am talking in 3rd person. I praised my own country and i think that can be done without being a nationalist. This would be my opinion had any country done it. I hate my corrent government and will take the front seat in critising it. I think it is possible to praise and criticize different aspects of the same nation, nuance people nuance !!
You're right. Any Western country would have integrated the Sentinelese people into their culture by force, but India respects their desire to be left alone by, well, leaving them alone. And observing them from a distance.
@@Rishi123456789 itna jyada bhi bhavuk nahi hona tha bhai
Funny how you commend your own country...
@@petergriffincomedy5477 if you had actually been to Kashmir, you would have known
@@petergriffincomedy5477 most probably a pakistani bot at its duty
It honestly is mind boggling that there are people living like it is the last Ice Age who live 50km away from a modern century 21st city.
Civ moment
if I go with an AK I bet the title would be diff
The only interesting thing is the persistence of modern humans in bothering these people.
@@codercrisYT they are dozens or perhaps hundreds of experts hunters, you likey would be either killed by them or jailed by the indian gov.
@@theforsakeen177 I know
Respect to the Indian government for making it illegal to enter- this kind of stuff is super cool to me and I’m glad they’re preserving it
Imagine if Native Americans were this successful😔
@@DCBikerR1 Different circumstances, if north sentinel island wasnt an island, and was just part of india or any other country, it wouldve been colonized with the rest of the world way back when. The sheer vastness of the water around them and dense forest on the island gives them security. Dont get me wrong we as a civilization are sparing them. we could easily use air superiority and demolish them.
*Respect for letting savage murderers get away scot-free with slaughtering innocent victims?*
*Barbaric murders are indeed "super cool", good thing they're been "preserved"...*
*The level or cretinism of some comments on here is off the charts.*
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@@frontenac5083What they do isn't much different from border patrol shooting on sight around Mexico.
Heck, they have more valid reasons for doing what they do than what border patrol has. The last time they accepted foreigners on their island, the foreigners kidnapped their children (led by Maurice Vidal Portman).
If you want to see savage murders, go see the ongoing situation with the Uighur camps in China.
It will always baffle me how Chau thought he could convert the whole island when he didn't even know enough to say "There once was a man named Jesus" in Sentinelese.
😢
He was a fool
God told him.
At least he tried. He was likely hoping to spend enough time with them to begin learning pieces of their language.
Considering that the single most important calling Christianity has is to spread the gospel to all people of the earth and give them a chance to convert, he believed his faith and calling were more important than the laws forbidding access.
Christians
What I find fascinating is why so many feel the urge to want to force themselves onto a people who clearly just want to be left alone.
Well do they really want to be left alone? If given the level of understanding we have they would likely not wish to be stuck on that island
@@fanban2926 LEAVE THEM ALONE
No not really it's more God forbid they don't worship my special deities so therefore I need to save them. And forget how that went with native Americans just opened a history book .I don't think any of us really enjoyed being a displaced and buried under a school for Forced integration.
Leave them alone.
They are made up of individuals, each with their own opinion. 'A people' don't have one unified opinion, it might be the majority opinion, or the opinion of the leadership, but I'm sure there are individual variations, and probably individuals that don't agree at all.. you know like with all groups of humans
i’m curious about how they explain all this within their own culture/lore. I can only imagine they tell mythical stories of themselves being visited by strange creatures and beings
I like to think that maybe they think of the other people as just another small island tribe, they really have NO idea of how unfathomably big the world and population is, they're so disconnected from the human civilization
"So yeah, basically these assholes keep coming over and abducting and diseasing us, so if you ever see some weirdos come by, just angrily wave a stick at them and they'll usually piss right off back where they came from."
Hmm, you can make a religion out of that. Maybe that's where we got many of our religions from.
yes. they'd say they were visited by mud bloods and that our impurity made it difficult for them to get past the charms protecting the island. their personal power was lost making them vulnerable. they'd say we are dependent on materials.
Same. Since they're in such close proximity to the airport on Port Blaire, what do they think the airplanes are? Giant birds? Gods?
17:21 it may be..abit more naive than my usual thoughts, but I hope that last positive interaction made for some kind of “okay there are nice ones out there” kind of stories among them
The presence of a woman made it clear that they weren't being raided by a war party, but visited by another people. Such things really matter to a people with honed survival instincts.
This is so racist. “Ok there are nice ones” be for fcking real. When have white people ever shown us the empathy and understanding you want THEM to feel? No one needs to show kindness to a colonizer. That’s how the rest of us got caught up in this colonial nightmare.
@@RememberHisLove They should try sending hordes of women there.
With lots of coconuts! The ONE guy who successfully visted them (more than once or twice) and SURVIVED just spent the first few years not getting too close to the island, just throwing coconuts towards it. After a few YEARS of this (might have been as long as a decade or more) they finally decided he was cool enough to hang with to some extent...
EDIT: The man's name was Mr Pandit (The BBC article didn't give an actual first name just initials... T M, I believe)
As if tribes “think” that someone is nice or evil
Can you imagine how terrifying it would be for them if they don't have pigs on their island and we gifted them a pig. It would be like seeing an alien.
probably why they buried the dammed thing
It's still an animal. They could have eaten it. What a waste
@@marcoAKAjoe so if aliens from space landed in new york with some "food" you're telling me you would be all, "oh yum sign me the fuck up for whatever that shit is"
@@literatemaxsociety is being groomed to accept aliens aka demons in flesh form
@@antonylopez5742 Good. I welcome our superiors. They need to hurry the fuck up and save us from ourselves.
Somehow, I doubt they will.
It’s fascinating to imagine what stories they might be telling each other about the outside invaders and the abducted children who returned bearing gifts (and probably curses). Peak myth-making material right there.
And I can’t blame that for becoming mythic and portraying non-islanders like demons.
imagine what a plane would look like in their eyes. its like a spaceship to us.
youre thinking it too deep.
Elon musk
@@Balletified Usually the civilization of hunting people tend to believe some sort of animism. So I suppose they can not understand the concept of Christianity, or similar religion in our society after all.
Kudos to India. Not many governments would behave so ethically. Impressive.
Nonsense. If it were the case that evidence of natural gas or gold or any other valuable commodity were found in the island, the Indian government would throw ethics to the air.
@@burieddreamer blocking people from going there could mean the same.. there's something lurking in the shadow.. 🤣
@@yashugola1929 Intresting theory. Reminds me of far cry 3
@@burieddreamer Many countries would throw ethics to the wind regardless, so just giving some credit where due. Don't understand how that is triggering but here we are.
Yet they allow illegal scam call centers to operate all over the place and do nothing to stop these people from stealing millions of dollars a year.
I wonder if they'll ever create boats one day that are able to travel to Port Blair and discover our world. It would be extremely interesting to see how they react to real knowledge of the outside world.
I wonder if there is a single one of them that's curious about what's beyond their world and one day they venture out and see, then go back and inform the others.
If history is a guide, there’ll be war.
their immune system would take them out before they would be able to do that
@@tfoyrn9328Not if they stay on the boat.
I am honestly fascinated about them being an ark on human development. Although, they won’t get far without necessary technological resources.
I'm from Port Blair, thank you for this video. People usually think that Port Blair isn't developed at all. Even I learnt a lot from your video, I wasn't aware of all the history about Sentinal Island.
Hi Soumi.. Are you Bengali?
interesting
Me too from port Blair. Aberdeen
Does G5 or G3 reach until Sentinel Island?
I mean once could run a private G5 hub on a boat close to sentinenl Island and observe them with solar drones.
Or have a solar powered drone do a waypoint mission and capturing video material that could be viewed when the drone returns from the waypoint mission.
Y r u thanking him he presented the distorted image of india in this video.... 😤
The story of the ship crashing near the island and then them getting attacked by mysterious people they didn't know existed would make an amazing horror film
There are countless movies like that
King Kong was kind of like that
You could call it "The Island". If Michael Caine was still alive, he could be the star.
Lost vibes
@@miplaylis2054 The fact that they greeted a woman with open arms makes me think they have a 15ft monkey on the island.
I hadn't known how close the island is to Port Blair. 25 km would simply be the next county over for me, I could drive it in 20 minutes. That close to the modern world but still separate.
Yeah, I never knew either. And to put it into a sea distance comparison it's nearly 50% closer than the closest point between Dover (England) and Calais (France). *And we can see the French coast from Dover on a clear day.*
I suggest u should offer them a country trip in your car
The fact that madhumala and pandit made it so close is that they had good intentions unlike others , the natives sensed it
Very true 💯
It was also because a woman accompanied them signalling no harm.
That's literally
Did you watch the same video the rest of us did?
The Sentinelese tried to shoot them the first like 40 times they tried. It took them years to get to the point that they could make contact
The fact that madhumala and pandit made it so close is that they were persistent unlike others
Plus idk about this "sensing it" nonsense
I think leaving gifts on their beaches for YEARS was a pretty good indication
@@harveyspecter111 Indeed, women are usually not warriors in tribal societies. Sure, the male warriors may teach their wives and daughters how to protect themselves and their children, but women are too valuable to endanger them to random hostility. You do not take a woman to a war party, and that was the unspoken language of group composition.
@samstromberg5593 the people leaving gifts though could have still left contact heath issues as they were in contact with those gifts. And what about any germs on that ship?
It'd be so amazing to hear the islanders stories of what the outside world is and all of these attempts at contact
i DESPERATELY want to know their history and stories and mythos. i know they want to be left alone, and i respect that. i don’t think anyone should go there. but my god do i want to know about them.
@@rey273 It's amazing to think they seem to be an isolated group of survivors from the first wave of people who left Africa. Just insane to think about their history. Other groups became adapted to their surroundings, so turned into what we know perceive to be Indians, Thai, Japanese etc. But these guys were perfectly adapted to tropical island life from the start.
@@rey273 these people are inbred beyond Deliverance. Can't imagine much in the way of storytelling beyond grunts and oogah oogahs.
@@davidbragg7153 you also appear to be imbred beyond deliberance but seem to be communicating just fine
@@rey273 wow you're upset. Did you have a bad day?
Madhumala Chattopadhyay actually made peaceful contact in the 90s and was allowed to help with food prep and watch after the children. Her approach was really smart and it probably helped that she was a woman. The Sentinelese women welcomed her and treated her like one of their own.
If you watch all of the video he talks about her
Don't give this idea to new Evangelist. Delete this.
@@user-kf7tt2vk6t You're kidding me right please take your Christianity is the only way thinking out of here
As another replier has already said you should delete this comment to help not give other evangelists and missionaries sources or ideas of what they should do next time another one of them think ita a good idea to contact this tribe
@@user-kf7tt2vk6t I am not an arbiter I am merely a scientist and someone who has traveled a good portion of this planet. Please tell me then why these people need to be evangelised?
I love how north sentinel island is all deadly and scary while south sentinel island looks exactly same but instead of deadly tribes it has red lobster
Dad walks into the room, unbuttons his jean shorts to give his beer-belly some extra room, taps himself on the stomach and says: "I dunno, boy, I've had a few deadly tribes of red lobster in my day. Mhm."
@Dr.Kay_R I'm glad you commented here. I totally forgot that I'd written this joke! 😂
@@ignatiusjackson235 again a reminder, Good joke
How they respond and ponder on the visitors is actually how we respond to some things we cant explain in modern world. 😂 their discussion on how outsiders are demonic is what some of us also thought of an UFO.
Baka gusto mo din bumisita diyan Cong😅
I bet plenty of people here would straight up just talk to aliens if they came out of a flying saucer and had a basic handle on english.
Eyo Cong, it's nice seeing you in the comments.
Outsiders are Demonic tho, think about it.
Si idol pala to eh
Given the way the Japanese military behaved in the Second World War, it’s interesting that they didn’t completely wipe out all of the North Sentinel islanders. Though maybe the islanders were smart enough to hide in the jungle and the Japanese thought it just wasn’t worth the time and effort to hunt them all down.
@Katie McMullen as they should've
But the allied powers almost wiped out the ancient cultures
@Katie McMullen Indian musIims? Hahah your so called "Indian" musIims collaborated with British and as a gift British partitioned india and gave them Pakistan and Bangladesh.
@Katie McMullen the British taught the Hindu Indians to hate the Muslims. India was prosperous under the Mughal Muslim Empire
@katiemcmullen3817 resistance from Indian Muslim.? Lol whr the others gone
What’s really insane is that we’re all communicating to eachother about this civilization from multiple points on the planet, while their means of communication is limited to in person.
It's just amusing they sent him back to his deity. He deserved what he got.
@@phoenixrivenus9270 😄😄😄
Re Communication, Which is better? For them its unnecessary as everything is right there. For us, the same tech we use for convenience and entertainment is also used to spy on and control us. A golden leash.
Bet they are a lot happier. No mental health issues. And no religion…….
@@vaper106 How could you possibly know that they have no mental health issues or religion? They almost certainly have both.
honestly anyone who goes near them knowing all the risks, has it coming, that’s natural selection doing it’s job 😭
John: I am here to spread peace
Sentinals: Rest in peace
Fatality!
🤣
Spread peace? Lmao selling people the promise of a spiritual safety net is not spreading peace
He didn't go to spread peace. He went to indoctrinate a tribe into his religion. It wasn't even 100 years ago Christians raped & tortured native american children in Canada. And many years ago would attempt genocide on any race/culture that did not convert
Glad he died, I hope it was painful & slow.
If Christians found this island before anyone, this tribe would be dead.
exactly.
Cant imagine living at that technological level, and then seeing a helicopter...
Because you do not have imagination.Because you are fake.Because you have sold your soul to good quality rectangular papers called currencies.
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@@abhishakeification LOL I honestly dont even know how to respond to that...
@@microbuilder well that's my speciality👍
@@microbuilder and did you measure in decible when you were doing "LOL".
And do reply to me how you laugh your ass out,too☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Truly, the Gods Must be Crazy.
I believe the aggression towards outsiders might be driven by the fear of competition for limited food on their island. Their population size is likely limited by the available food resources, resulting in a delicate balance between population and sustenance. This interplay between population and food availability could further contribute to their defensive behavior towards potential competitors.
I don't. Outsiders already brought disease and death to them once. Leave them alone
@@ItsMe-ic7on you don't what?
They live near a ocean… plenty of fish man, cmon
Meeting outsiders with violence is probably the key to their survival. History is filled with people who tolerated or helped newcomers only to be wiped out by that group after they set up shop and reinforcements.
I find this very racist. They don't have the right to own the island and decide who can settle there. There are no indigenous peoples, we all come from Africa. And with global warming, migration is inevitable.
That island is basically when you forget that some of your units were off on a random patch of land in Civ, and you didn't upgrade them because of that.
Hahaha nice one
I think it's amazing enough that a professional anthropologist and his team were able to make even cordial meetings with these guys as their life's work. Regardless of how we write our laws, these are a sovereign people at the head of their own nation state rightfully concerned about the dangers of outside contact, and I think that's the most we can hope from our contact.
The contact was done slowly and with care to appear benevolent.
Imagine if Native Americans were this successful😔
They don't have a concept of the nation
Yeah nation state as a concept is only a few hundred years old
@@arpa9009they have a concept of home that Island is their home, and they're are defending it like you would defend your home against any intruder
The North Sentinalese got rid of an unwanted visitor, and that guy got to meet Jesus at a young age. It was a win-win
Dude , no need to be harsh, the Indian government did quarantine off for a reason, they are last surviving group of untouched (or mostly untouched) hunter gatherers of the tropical islands
@@dep3031 Well the tourist was too optimistic about his chances of spreading the faith. Everyone just feels like they can one up well funded experts.
The dude was murdered
@@robluker1599 by hunter gatherers which he already knew
Best comment ever
I wonder what it was like for them to go onto the modern abandoned ship. Must've been like going onto an alien spaceship.
Might as well.
Knowing our technology I don’t know how people ever got killed well yeah cause they were definitely not smart, you could use a knight armor and never die from an arrow cause you know that’s what they were designed for and still be peaceful, just prepared with gas or some other non deadly crowd defusing tools and carry a set of scrolls telling them in visual language that you’re not hostage and that diseases were the real danger but that’s why you have a mask or something like that to prevent spreading disease
Do we have security footage of the islanders scouring the wreck?
@@josephpostma1787 wreck ship with hidden cameras there, and it would be possible to spy on them
@@sakshichaudhary1191 I feel like it's more important to understand these people than it is to respect their wishes of privacy.
I live in port blair and usually if you fly here from mainland India, you can actually spot this island and get really clear view.
That's what he says in the video
That also means the Sentinelese can also see airplanes and helicopters perfectly in the sky.
Bro get some quality camera gear and an awesome drone and go film them! I wanna know what they're up to!
@@Waff3n Would need a drone that could fly at least 6 miles on a single charge and then some so they could capture some footage and hope it isn't shot down.
@@man_on_wheelz Drones and unauthorised planes are not allowed in this region.
I am currently enjoying my holidays in Andaman Nicobar now
😂💗 & Watching your video...
Love from India 🇮🇳
you have no justice system
@@AGRG-ex4dxjustice for whom? That Christian missionary?😂
Just admit John was a religion fanatic guy, it was suicide to go there
@@AGRG-ex4dxAs if America has a perfect justice system. Your own politicians profit from wars and weapons lol
With the Indian navy patrolling the outskirts - makes you wonder if alien starships are patrolling the outer solar system, keeping other aliens from visiting us due to humanity’s warlike nature.
Unlikely, seeing as no drunk alien fishermen were killed after crashlanding.
That we know of that is.
Vesszen az emberiség
@@KarolOfGutovo maybe those aliens sightings and roswell incidents was the aliens fisherman lol 😂
Good point
@@KarolOfGutovo Roswell!! Nah I have no idea if that story is true, but I have seen weird stuff in the sky that could basically only be alien technology. The truth... is out there!
...and apparently aliens. Aliens are out there.
it seems like there might be multiple tribes considering how some encounters are immediately aggressive while others seem to be more cautious.
@Curio no, the island is quite big. I reckon it could have a population of over 500 if the there are multiple tribes.
@Curio it could support way more than 200. No accurate number of the population is known but the island can support way more than 200. Also tribes don't mean hundreds of people necessarily it could be a tribe of about 40-70 then another bigger Tribe or other smaller tribes or just one big group of hundreds.
@Curio Those statistics actually make it rather impressive that the Sentinelese have managed to keep that balance for so long. SOOOOOOOOO frequently humans mess up in small spaces like that, to include Polynesian explorers on Rapa Nui, for instance.
that is a perfect idea because of 1 thing they are scared of man like you know how they were more accepting of a woman that makes sense to us because we know historically it was always man that went to war but if they are alone on the island as 1 tribe who would be warring with them and why would they know that man mean war
@Curio it's roughly the same size as Manhattan, do you think there's less than 200 people in NYC?
Kudos to India for respecting and protecting this isolated and unique culture. I do not wish John Allen Chau any disrespect or ill will, but his actions were an embarrassment to himself and our society. May he RIP.
Even though Chau graduated Magna Cum Laud, he went full retard.
“No disrespect but he was an embarrassment” lmao
They killed people. They should not be protected. They should be arrested
Nothing embarrassing about his actions.
It's not like he wasn't aware that he might be killed.
He went there with full knowledge that he most likely would.
He was also warned to not go there.
Nothing embarrassing about his actions or even weirdly, to our society, whatever the heck you mean by that.
No one here, from the Sentinelese, John Chau, the Indian govt, the fisherman, society - literally nothing was embarrassing about anyone here
No offense, but [insert offensive comment].
Damm they must be so related to each other! Sisters and brothers everywhere
We call it "small" but he gives the size comparison in the video it's the size of manhattan. Of course it isn't overpopulated like NYC but that's still thousands of people.
@@xEricC1001x Then how far as a relative you should be to not make bad blood?
@@xEricC1001xIt’s only estimated to have 400 people max
@@NebraskaGonvilleJonesestimated.
That's what I thought too, they are probably very inbred by now.
The most surprising thing I learned from this video is that extablishing communication with Japanese Army officials is almost as hard as contacting the Sentinelese
As IJA officers and soldiers rather kill and die rather than having contact with you. That is how they are zealots to the Jesus wannabe sitting on the Chrysanthemum Throne somewhere in Tokyo.
No no mate trying to contact the ENGLISH DWP is HARDER than that.belive me man.
i'd argue it's even harder!
or contacting Facebook.
That makes no sense
Traveling from Port Blair to North Sentinel Island is basically like traveling back in time several thousand years
10 of thousand years, Greece and Egypt existed and they are more modern than those hunter gatherers
@@vipvip-tf9rw they are stone age tribe
How do you know how it was severel thousands years ago ?????
@@patricelanauze8301 archeology
@@vipvip-tf9rw what do you mean by that statement
Those people want to be left alone and India seems to respect that, and so should we. If they ever decide to contact us, I hope we have reached a level where we don't try to force our world on them. Until that happens, they seem to do just fine on their own.
If only the Western nations were shown that same respect and courtesy. They seem to maintain a racially intolerant ethnostate and the same people who shrug it off as "hate" for Western nations seem to tout the importance of being left alone from outsiders from them
My messed up imagination: NUCLEAR STRIKE
They have, and will never have a way to reach out to us. Unless we give them one.
@@kingfogu999 are you for real
@@kingfogu999 that's a great way to ignite a civil war and get India onto the shit list of countless countries
The one good thing I'll say about John Chau's attempt to visit was that he was aware that he could be killed and that if it did happen he neither blamed them nor wanted anyone to try to recover his body.
They are more aware than you describe. As you stated, there have been numerous contact attempts, and they almost certainly see the planes and boats.
I have to wonder what their history and legends say about the rest of us, and whether they know the Indian patrols are there for their own sake and not just to spy. But these people have the right idea to keep living in a tight knit community and I'm glad there's been SOME peaceful contact. But the way human nature goes, those stories might not last as long as the ones about the abductions in the 1800s.
they probably see them as devices from aliens, and some of us might've went down as tales, but not in a good way.
Yes they see stuff but that doesn't mean they understand those stuff
the no go zone includes the air space. planes and things are not allowed to fly over unless emergency
@@acatinatux9601finish the video, plane flights often take you directly over the island.
I just looked on Google earth, and sure enough, found the shipwreck! How cool. I love that there are still some remote, ancient cultures that are largely untouched by modern technology! I am fascinated by the lifestyles of supposedly "primitive people", who have mastered survival in places that most of us would quickly perish! I hope that these people will continue to be protected from the outside world. Just knowing that they are there, and truly free, makes my heart glad!
They're basically prisoners on an island. They're only free in the sense they don't pay taxes, or are at risk of being sent to prison for non payment of rent. But I think being in modern society and being able to buy a steak when you feel like it is much better than being stuck naked on an island.
@@genericscout5408 That is the only life they have ever known, and they choose to preserve it. No racism, no street gangs, no drugs, no taxes, no getting stuck in traffic. In some way I envy their lifestyle.
@@buckbuchanan4902 They have plenty of racism it leads to immediate death. Their society is merely small enough where they don't deal with warfare is all.
@@buckbuchanan4902 My question is: Do you really want that kind of lifestyle and living?
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation No, I don't want that lifestyle. I do envy aspects of it and I greatly respect it, but I also appreciate many modern advances. My ideal lifestyle would be isolated on a large island, but still have internet to research, keep in contact with relatives, watch movies, etc.
My question simply is how did this person think he would communicate with the tribe? Did he think language or gestures or drawings would get through to them? Just so many questions arise as to how he felt he could " spread the word".
Missionaries are usually taught how to record and learn a new language from scratch. Like Dan Everett did with the Pirahã people. There are standardized methods and procedures to do so.
@@mateozanone7216 - A woman _might_ have had a chance of at least being taken in and not murdered. But alien men are clearly seen as dangerous by the Sentinelese. The kid should have figured that out from research.
The only way to contact these people is, unfortunately, knock down several of them, to show some respect, then you will have the attention, but there is no reason to do that.
@@cacogenicist there have been countless aggressive tribes and indigenous people who have been reached by missionaries and successfully turn to cristianity, it just takes time to gain their trust. That being said, it was CLEARLY stupid to go to the sentinelese as unprepared as this guy was. I also do not like the work of missionaries and religious groups as a whole whatsoever
Stupidity.
Amazing to think they've been left alone. That's the best thing I've ever heard. I hope they stay that way
I like that quote. “We cannot be said to have done anything more than increase their general terror of, and hostility to, all comers.” Even if explorer’s intentions are good, disturbing the Sentinelese people does more harm than good. Let them live in peace.
And what net benefit is it to integrate them into our society? None. They want to be left alone and it's a small island. It's not like North Sentinel Island is some giant ass continent with some natural resources, ergo economic incentive. It's just a small island with a people who want to be left alone, so why not leave them alone?
Imagine if Native Americans were this successful😔
And then continued to visit lmao
@@jason.-.5128he didn't ? He left and never came back , like u dense ?
@@niggachu420 9:12
Madhumala Chattopaadhyaay has more inspiring story and she deserves a little more time in this video. She accomplished something great which other team members didn't and that story of meeting with the sentinelese is something worth sharing.
No one cares
@@spetznazz2445 exactly!
This was a history not individual story lol
@@ArtyMars lol little more mention of a person who contributed in making of that history is not individual story. Is that too hard to grasp? Not smart enough?
Why ? What was there to gain worth the risk to those people by making physical contact ?
Father was born and raised in the Andaman Islands. He often told me stories of the Sentinelize, and the Jarawa. Hope to visit the Islands one day, just not that one!
Jarawas wear nike shoes now tho
Wise choice, Brandon!
Don't!
Nice friendly people.
@@gto433 They wear Jordans
What’s really insane is that we’re all communicating to eachother about this civilization from multiple points on the planet, while their means of communication is limited to in person.
I like the idea that he thought eleven days would save them from viruses that just live in him without making him sick
well, he was going there to forcibly spread a religion (christianity at that), so definitely not the smartest dude
Our educational system is a joke.
Yeah, exactly. The Spanish Conquistadors weren’t sick from diseases when they set foot in the new world. They were so immunised against diseases that the diseases existed within them without any symptoms. These germs then hopped on to the indigenous populations, wiping them out.
11 days is never enough. Some Germs live in the human body for life.
christianity momen
As if all those people needed was his religion. He should have spent more time reading scientific textbooks and less time reading that other book.
as someone who basically majored in anthropology at community college, North Sentinel Island is one of the most fascinating places on Earth to me. if i ever really went into that field, i WOULD love to go there and study them, but i value my own life and those the Sentinelese more than i value what i could learn there :P hopefully we WILL be able to learn at least SOMETHING more about them in the future with everything ending well for everyone involved.
You don't major in things at community college. I went to a community college and transferred to a UC for physics
@@pyropulseIXXI Don't be a pedantic cunt
we all know that nothing good when outsiders come in. That island would probably be converted into a beach resort if we ever let the rest of the world step in.
the only way we'll ever get on this island is if they ever go fully extinct
@@pyropulseIXXI You uhh, can? There are multiple community colleges in my area that offer 2 year and 4 year degrees
@@pyropulseIXXI what a tool.
This is the type of quality content that is so hard to find on TV.
Connect ur tv with internet…
That statement was perfect!
You still watch tv in 2022?
@@antiquefuturistic I haven't had pay television for 8 years.
Precisely because of the amount of crap you're piping into your house at a premium price.
You won't find any good things from TV
Hindustan: “Leave them alone and at peace, please.” 🧘🏽♀️🙏🏽🕉️
Christians: 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️ “They don’t know better, we are here to correct them.”
Sentinelese: 🏹🏹🏹💀
Lmao this
leave it to a christian to do this lmao
Love will make you go to those places so that they can know their Creator and their God.
@@Mahlaki-q7p 🤢
Imagine being lost at sea and finally coming across land and it’s this island
The dead end 😭
You'll probably be found by the navy patrol boats first, unless you're actively trying to avoid them.
@@rohitchaoji Not if you’re just floating in the water. You could slip right past anybody. Its almost impossible to spot a human in the water from a boat in the open sea even if you’re looking for them.
Damn I will literally be shaking and sweating and I might catch a heart attack if I even see they spot me on that beach I will swim away into the ocean until the end as a black man the sentinels is scary asf just look at how these guys looks I rather drown than they kill me
@@sarsvfx If they don't kill you there may be a extremely small chance that they see you as some kind of god if you happen to heal a sick member of the tribe....
Great respect for India in honouring their wishes.
Imagine if Native Americans were this successful😔
@@DCBikerR1Don't worry, American arrogance is eternal and would've eventually killed them via segregation.
I'm fascinated by their language, considering it's basically an alien language. Its last common ancestor with any other language is 10s of thousands of years ago, meaning that it's basically unintelligible to us. But I'm sure it'd be fascinating to study, if anyone could actually get that chance. The stories they could tell must be fascinating. Their folklore, religion, and beliefs about the outside world. And what they know or believe about their own history.
Not everyone has to have religious beliefs.
@@ThePrufessa I never said they did. You however seem completely offended by the suggestion that these people might have religious beliefs, in which case I invite you to fuck off. I can only assume you're one of those people who brags about being an atheist and think it makes you smarter than everyone else.
@@ThePrufessa You're right. But, probabilistically they have a religion. Most underdeveloped societies do or did. When you don't have an explanation backed by science you make it up. I won't say that ancient civilizations all had religions but we'd be hard pressed to find an example let alone 2.
@@ThePrufessa Everyone has to have beliefs
@@MuchWhittering first of all how does the comment I said make me "seem" offended by anything you have said? Perhaps you have a problem with your reading comprehension. You should work on that before engaging in dialogue in UA-cam comments.
Im living in Port Blair ...Studying Marine Biology ... I can tell you one thing for sure that ..The kind of atrocities done with these Aboriginals by British were horrible . Many local contacts and modern jarwah tribe people said that very Inhumane and Barbaric British acts on these islands ; made these sentinalies people hate us . AND THE SENTINALIES COUPLE YOU MENTIONED KIDNAPPED BY PORTMAN WAS ACTUALLY ABDUCTED FOR THE STUDY OF ANATOMY OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBE AND BOTH TRIBAL MOTHER AND FATHER WERE BRUTALLY KILLED BY MISSIONARIES FOR THE SAME IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN...That's the triggering point of history where actual conflicts starts in between SENTINALIES and SO CALLED MODERN CIVILISED PEOPLE.
Thank you for the insight 👏
Damn i wish they at least didnt make the kids go back to the island where they would tell how bad we were,instead they could have more protection make them learn english and wait a couple of years to settle that way(without killing their parents tho💀)
The Christmas Tsunami had a major effect on the island, raising large areas of surrounding reef above sea level, thus enlarging the island. Helicopter footage verified that the islanders as a whole survived the tsunami. No one knows what the islanders thought of the event, or how many were killed.
They simply they can protect themselves sometimes we must respect them and leave them alone
I’m not sure if it’s true, but supposedly the often used photo from above of the islander shooting into the air with a bow is from a helicopter survey shortly after the tsunami, to see if they had survived.
I can just imagine the crew’s perspective.
“Hmm I don’t see anything… Oh shit, arrows! Mission accomplished, they’re fine, let’s get out of here!”
Does anyone know how large the Tsunami was that struck the island?
@@theoddfather8782 Good question.
@@theoddfather8782 you should ask locals about that
Impossible to know if the "successful and friendly" contacts did not later have repercussions with the tribe regarding illness. Contagions present on the gifts even could cause a severe plague of illness for the tribe. So have a think about the association they might make from that.. ultimately the most likely outcome of contact is to be trusted even less
I think that’s why the government gave up and blocked the island out. Probably because experts might have sounded the alarm about this problem.
Most likely option would be that they might have gone through heavy sanitization before making the contact. This was a team of experienced professional anthropologists
@@keerthichandra376 professional anthropologists that had never had contact before with isolated human organisms on that level. You can't disinfect everything. People sweat, people breath, people urinate, and defecate. If you are immune to something you carry that is innocuous to yourself mere exposure of yourself to someone that isn't is potentially a case for transmission. They didn't go there in hazmat suits! The fact is they easily could have spread something totally harmless to them to the island inhabitants and as such would be seen as bringers of death in the eyes of the natives. professional or not it could have happened
Leave them alone. Why do you think your religion or culture is more important than others. They were happier before
No one knows if they're happy or unhappy it's just life to them however these people are just high functioning animals nothing more nothing less
Interesting - had no idea about this place. One picky point - just because they are using some iron/metal stuff left behind doesn't mean they have been "catapulted into the Iron Age". The Iron Age involved humans noticing iron ore in the ground, digging it out and developing techniques for smelting and shaping it.
I've heard that on all contacts after that they were observed to be using iron tipped arrows and spears, so they seem to have figured out the usefulness and made the transition pretty quickly. Impressive
Well since all their weapons have iron tips on them I’d say it’s fair to assume they have the ability to use iron
@@theAverageJoe25 Use it, but not make it themselves.
It would be an interesting path to give them useful technology in small pieces and invoke changes to the place, but it would take generations to do it carefully.
@@pestsov Maybe, though I tend to think it best to leave them alone.
Hey RealLifeLore, I would be really interested to see a video exploring what happens to a embassies when their home country has a coup, takeover, or ceases to exist. For example, when the Taliban retook Afghanistan, what happened to the country's ambassadors and staff serving abroad? Could be a very interesting topic to look into.
They're not getting within 10 feet of that topic.
@@KillbotSw Gotta love UA-cam 🤦🏻♂️
Wanna know what happens? Visit liveleak or best dore to find out what their fate was
Replace the (d) with " g "
First thing the regime will do is try to get international recognition and likely expel perceived political enemies.
I think it's good to leave them be. It's strange that people talk about 'studying them' like they're some sort of specimen. They're also just people. I also have a lot of questions and am curious about their culture and way of life but they are entitled to their privacy on their own land.
Damn, you sound like such a caring person.
You’re taking it too literally. By “studying them”, we mean studying their language, culture, religion, way of life, etc. We already know they are human and share the same anatomy.
@@YungGaucho you are wrong. It does create a notion of treating them like a specimen. They want no parts of the modern world and people are still trying to invade their world. We have seen this in history repeatedly and it’s always Black people…you must have missed the history about slavery for 400 years on the continent of Africa. Women being used as projects for surgeries without anesthesia. People should not be use for research projects and projects that directly impact those living in poverty which are typically people of color.
@@LovelyBee-e5g first of all, don’t act like Africans weren’t slavers themselves. There were plenty of African tribes that enslaved their rivals like the Dahomey people. These things were going on long before European slavers arrived in Africa. I mean, who do you think sold them the slaves? OTHER AFRICANS. Not to mention the word Slave comes from Slav, a predominately white group of people that was enslaved for a long period of time. Secondly, nobody is treating them like a “specimen”. As I said before, we already know they are humans, therefore we already understand their anatomy. By “studying them”, we mean studying their culture, language, social hierarchy, religion, etc. And who wouldn’t be interested in that? It is one of the last remaining tribes sealed off from the modern world. It’s like taking a look into our own past! There’s a treasure trove of knowledge that we can gain from them. And if you’re paying attention, they’re already under the protection of the Indian government. Their wishes are already being respected.
@@LovelyBee-e5g slavery is way older then 400 years ago in Africa. Educate yourself.
I wouldn’t trust anybody either. Look how they were done through out the story. Thanks for sharing this.
My professor at NID who was teaching Social and Liberal Arts was in that boat during 1992, he showed us multiple videos which were never released. Super interesting!
Please explain more of what else was there
yes please explain, i am beyond curious.
more explain please
Please
ayo bruh explain
I just went to look at this on Google Earth and holy crap, I've never seen such a densely forested area before. I guess that's what a real forest is supposed to look like. But it's no wonder nobody knows much about it trying to study it from the air.
Dense asf
i just did the same. and although there are "photo spots", i am unable to access them.
It would be cool to fly over with thermal imaging so we could have a better idea of the population density
Indian govt know that . They have complete data .
Some of their brothers from different island has accepted modern life . They know hindi language of Indians
@My Dixie Wrecked🔨 agreed
I am more fascinated by the thought that they may have a language that is independent of all the modern day languages.
languages develop over time, it's likely they had a common ancestor that spoke something completely different.
The Basque people aren't isolated like the Sentinelese but the Basque have a language not connected to any known Earthly language. They also have the highest percentage of rhesus negative blood in the Basque region. I researched them because I am also rhesus negative.
@@terrnado and what is rhesus negative?
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation Negative blood types. We lack a specific antigen that everyone else has. Also, Positive blood types are iron based while negative types are copper based.
@@terrnado 😲
Clearly they want to be left alone & I don't blame them. Just leave the people alone. Why is that so difficult to comprehend and RESPECT?
Kudos to Indian government who respects humanity more than British & Japanese! Sentinel Islands is not just a piece of land to go grab, its the people!
For British it was just another monday. Nothing special finding random native.
@Dr.Kay_R dude, india literally had caste system that still exist informally nowadays. Their humanity standard is bit different 😂
@@gappergob6169 black lifes matter in west😂😂. And religion baised west
Womp womp
Imagine a ship coming down to earth who are actually a bunch of friendly aliens trying to make contact with humans but we are terrified of them and start attacking. That's how it is from their POV! Live and let live!
I think thought that if that was to happen we wouldn’t fight straight away yes we’d be terrified but I’m sure the ppl doing it would wait about 6 seconds and if they are hostile then kill them but let’s be real who said aliens can die to bullets 😅
Unless they believe in a different sky friend then you then it's okay to torch their cities to the ground.
Yt ppl shouldnt be trusted
But people look like people, think it makes a huge difference. Even when you'd land in a heli.
@@robbycole7047 N
it's fascinating how these people survived and thrived over such a long time while having a very limited gene pool.
Not that limited
@@gigglepixel yeah it is there's probably only 200 on that island, they honesly are probably inbred if not they def will be in the future
@@hunterbodine6989 what makes you make that statement? The island is the size of manhatten so its plenty large to sustain much more life than 200 persons.
@@BushSage ok? Antartica is bigger than manhattan. Nice logic
@@MightbePettingmyCat FINISHHIM
I don’t understand people that want to go there, just leave them alone, they showed us that they don’t want any contact with the outside world and we have to respect that
Pandit and his crew most likely visited a chill tribe, with the other modern encounters being with a violent warlike tribe(s). Or after physically interacting with the Sentinelese and infecting them, outsiders were again to be killed on-sight.
Cool motive, still murderers.
Idk about that chill tribe and war tribe part. It sounds like they’re all just one big tribe. But I bet they infected them, which made them hostile to visitors once more. Since these sentinelese were most probably not alive when their predecessors were killed by infections and only heard tales of it
@@dhananjaysguitarcovers9296 It's foolish for you to assume that you understand the dynamics of the population in an uncontacted island. You know nothing whatsoever about their culture or their beliefs.
@@SamBrickell
Its foolish for you to think that 2 different tribes, 1 warlike and 1 peaceful would coexist on a small island for thousands of years
@@SamBrickell you’re right, I don’t. I thought I made it clear I was just speculating. But yeah it’s entirely possible the tribe has factions that are hunters and others that are not
I've always been fascinated by this island after learning about it. Not enough to want to go visit it in person obviously, but enough to be intrigued by one of the last groups of humans who have gone largely uncontacted through human civilization as a whole.
I wonder what kinds of interactions that the tribe must've had that wasn't recorded that would cause them to essentially turn anyone who wasn't one of them into a boogeyman. It's possible some of them were kidnapped by pirates and slave raiders, or diseases were spread by others who were castaways back on wooden ships, and who knows what the Imperial Japanese Army did to them during WW2. But I'll bet someone who lived through it talked about pale skinned men who could breathe fire and burned the jungle alive.
Imagine if Native Americans were this successful😔
you should visit. just use sleep inducing spray and they wont fight you.
@@blackglitter1474I don’t think sleep inducing spray would help you much when they shoot arrows at you from afar 😂
@@darkeningfyre actually it would work if it was dropped down from jets above. you're not that naive to believe that we have no technology for this situation are you?
@@blackglitter1474 Yeah just fucking knockout bomb the entire damn island wasting expensive incapacitating agents instead of, y'know, sending in one of the US military's tiny little surveillance drones to study them
I agree. Let them seek help on their own if and when they need it. I am however curious about the geography/nature of the island… has me wondering if there weren’t enough natural resources to exploit that made it easier for the gov’t to simply leave them alone
Navy often drop food by helicopter .
Their brother from other tribe get free food from govt and also know hindi
It's most likely the only reason they haven't managed to get technology on their own, since maybe they have no *exposed* iron on the surface, or probably not copper either.
I don't even think they have fire either, since you need quite special rocks for that and they might not have those.
@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 What do you mean by they don’t have fire?
@@Bryan48950 They probably don't have knowledge of how to make it, due to the fact we can clearly see the island is really small and with few resources needed to make a fire.
@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 There is video of them around a fire in this video
I read about this 10 years ago or so. Back then i could never find any videos on it. Im glad we have one now
12:04: Triloknath Pandit
Pandit, T. N. (1985). The Tribal and Non-Tribal in Andaman Islands: A historical perspectives. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 20:111-131.
Pandit, T. N. (1990). The Sentinelese. Kolkata: Seagull Books.
Pandit, T. N. & Chattopadhyay, M. (1989). Meeting the Sentinel Islanders: The Least Known of the Andaman Hunter-Gatherers. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 24:169-178.
First time the missionary showed up the Sentinelese drove him off, the second time they shot an arrow into the bible he was holding up, the third time they killed him. It's not like they didn't warn him and make it clear he wasn't wanted there
There are at least 11 groups living in the Amazon in Peru who, like the Andamon Islanders do not ever want contact with the outside world. There are people who are less adamant about contact and these people protect the Peruvian Amazonians from contact and work for restoration of the Amazon in Peru. I recently discovered that on BBC.
What part of "leave us the f-ck alone!" are people not getting? Why must we try to change people's belief systems?
Shout out to the Indian government for protecting the independence of these people.
Or the safety of their own citizens.
@@bearboy879 bro we are protesting them
so you really think the army wont survive if they decided to ??@@bearboy879
Why? They live within India - they should be forced to follow Indian law
Or protecting their own citizens. These people are the most violent people on the planet.
I guess the only relatively effective way to study their tribe without loss of human life is to deploy a spider drone that can blend itself into the environment that can record & send footage of how the sentinels behave, communicate etc. Right in the heart of the island
Just fly drones in anymore lol. They will get used to the new metal bugs.
Just leave them alone we don't need to know.
@@nicholawilson8555 lame
@@tb9084 yawn !
??? You and I would be be pissed as hell if we were spied and violated
I wonder if music was ever considered as a way to communicate with them. The only good reason I think there is to contact them would be to learn from them and establish contact in case there was a catastrophic event that threatened to wipe them out. Definitely better to leave them alone though as opposed to risking further harm. What a fascinating phenomena. I also wonder if thermal imaging has been done to get a sense of how many people there are and what their communities look like? It's interesting to compare our relationship with the Sentinelese like a more advanced alien civilization to us. It makes the dark forest theory from the three body problem seem less absolute, like maybe there are good aliens who are just curious what we're like and don't actually want to wipe us out. North Sentinel island is fascinating.
When Tsunami occurred we were worried if they were okay and a helicopter was sent to check and a lone man with bow and arrow came out proving they survived
@@apurvmhatre3855 they shot many times till they had to retreat the helicopter to Port Blair.
@@saarza9991 just send hind or mi26 they aren't going down with arrows fire
@@vipvip-tf9rw How about just leave them alone?
@@jorr1334 have you heard about concept of joke?
I don’t know why some people feel it’s their duty to bother people who don’t want to be bothered 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
Christian missionary brainrot , that's what is
I've watched quite a few videos on this and you're the only one to mention the Japanese encounter during WW2. Considering the atrocities they commited during the Second Sno Japanese War.. i wouldn't blame the tribe for hating all of the outside world. The fact that all the documents about their encounter have been destroyed means we will never know the true horrors forced opon them. If anyone reads this comment and isnt familiar with the Second Sno Japanese War, look it up, its insane and not a "conspiracy theory" thing. It actually happened
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Japan occupation could affected their community soo that they can't recover!
What tf would the Japanese army be doing in a 4 miles pack of deep jungle. You couldn’t event land a ship there, even less a plane or an hellicopter
@@abel.3000 wdym u can't land a ship there. sure u can.
Honestly for them, on one island, all of them probably just looking out for each other, it would probably be incomprehensible how much landmass there is, how many different cultures, and that most of us don't wish them harm. For all they know, the rest of humanity could be consolidated to the other Andaman Islands and the one peaceful contact was just some rogue group while the rest of the world is trying to infect them
Imagine being shipwrecked/ lost at sea and you finally see land thinking you are safe and you stroll up to this island lol
ok???
I think the only way we'd have a chance of picking up their language would be if we were able to do some kind of drone surveillance that would go completely unnoticed AND would be highly sanitized the same way we sanitize our Mars probes. I do think there's value in learning more about their language and way of life but ONLY if it can be done in a totally non-interfering way. That way we might have something to say in the event of an accident or crisis.
Worth a shot
How about just leaving them alone!!!!
@@martinalewis2844 Anything noticeable, I would consider interference as I stated above. So if anything we could try currently would still be noticeable in any way to the Sentinelese then I would say no.
Value? Very subjective. Modern humans split the atom almost a century ago. These people do not even have agriculture. At most, you’ll know another language.
How would you feel if aliens were surveilling us and it's completely unnoticed to us? 💀
They don't want contact, so steer well clear, unless you want to get riddled with arrows. It'd be interesting to see how they'd react to the drop off of a big mirror, a couple of unpeeled bananas, and a box of matches. But it's not worth risking your life for !
If visitors visit them ,there may be any disease,which they were not aware and they cleared from this world.
That's why our Indian government is strictly prohibited to visit this location.🙂
And i as an indian, support this .
By German standards the old version of the video would not have gotten any age restrictions. Non-sexualized nudity is considered absolutely fine here. Likely similar in many other countries, just not in the USA. There, for some reason nudity is a concern, but violence isn't (or at least way less). TBH doesn't make much sense to me.
Thank American's puritan past. It lives on.
No offense as an American I don’t understand why you Germans and other Europeans are perfectly fine with being naked in public.
It doesn't make sense to a lot of us here, either.
In America, horrific deplorable violence is OK, as long as no one shows boobs or says naughty words unbleeped.
America: Nipplegate
Europe: Lets make a dating show except everyone is naked
It's good to see the Indian government is giving them privacy, by banning any intervention from the outside world cuz technically they are Indians even though they don't know so, it's the Indian government's duty to do that and they are doing it. good!
But now these dangerous Christian missionaries are trying concert them to their deadly cult. History has shown that wherever christianity and middle eastern cults spread, destruction of the native followed.
Ironically, given the state of the modern world, the events that led to their isolation is probably the best thing that happened for them. The island provides everything they need.
In the modern world needing something is often the result of having something. People feel they need a mobile, but before mobiles existed, nobody need one
Why? They should be colonized in my opinion. I bet they would prefer living like normal people rather than like animals.
@@fuerstmetternich1997 That what USA and Europe did with the countries like Libiya or Iraq, invaded them for freedom and totally distroyed thn.
@@ChoCoMoCo69 Destroyed??? Living in Iraq now is way better than living under Saddam who gassed whole villages and locked up and murdered anybody critisizing him.
Also this has nothing to do with the topic at hand. We are talking about people who dont know how to make fire.
The missionary have been warned on his first 2 attempts but he didnt learn the lesson. They didnt kill him on first attempt
Imagine if a missioner kept trespassing in your home while possible carrying a deadly disease you're not immune to. They had a lot of patience actually.
What's weird is that if they were shown for example a picture drawing of a village from like the 14th century, they would likely still be confused and surprised and might perceive even that as a "modern world", so imagine if we actually did bring the tribe over to lets say, New York or London or Madrid imagine their reactions. In my opinion if we want to maintain this tribe we should just leave them alone, cause like you said bringing that elderly Sentinelese couple over to Port Blair and them getting sick and dying is just proof that this tribe should be left alone, so when the tribe attacks us for going there, we shouldn't be surprised at all.
we don't know their life expectancy. old people get sick.. they die..
It would be fascinating to take one of them and bring them to Tokyo or New York. Imagine their reactions...
Happy that these people are being left alone and these people do what's needed to protect themselves.
They seem like such lovely people. Although their ability to hack bodies apart with crude machetes means they should be living in London
That's because there's nothing of value on that island
@@w415800 How would you know that? There could be tons of resources hidden in the place
@@w415800 everything can't be quantified.
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Rocks, sand and trees... Might be valuable to someone. Wonder what wildlife is left on there.
I don't think that they became trapped but rather that some chose (or were forced) to stay. The sea levels would have risen slowly enough for those willing to cross over to the mainland
I don’t agree there have been many cataclysms that occurred in the space of a day or two causing great floods 😊
in my understanding such floods are seasonal and recede later - particularly in the open sea
They're not stupid. Very clever when you think about it. You mess with our seclusion and non accountability... we kill you.
Same thing Indian gov things when tsunami hits .. but these people survived . So don't worry they know how to swim better then us
ehhh, they were 'trapped', but not in our modern understanding of the term. Don't take everything literally.
Back then they didn't know that the sea levels were slowly rising and that they would not go down. Those groups mixed with other tribes from the islands, it is just that the tribes on Sentinel Island had their own territory and simply at one point stopped mixing with other islands since each year the crossing was more and more difficult + unnecessary.
They are trapped in a sense that they can't get out if they wanted to because their ancestors populated the land; and are a very interesting singular genetic group
I’m glad these people are always unsuccessful in trying to destroy this tribe.
I wonder if it's possible to record audio from a distance to study their language? I think it would be so interesting to learn how they live without actually making contact.
I can imagine that once drones get decent range/runtime/small enough, that can happen
Definitely not with our current tech. Though I can conceptualize robotic birds and insects would be very effective, if they could be developed and convincingly disguised.
Like watching an ant farm with tiny microphones
Sure go ahead but tell us how it goes when you’re in the afterlife.
@JuwanBuchanan Bro saw "from a distance" and "without contact" and just yeah ima ignore those words.