'Uncontacted Tribes' still exist. One of them killed an American a few days ago.

[sunwings]

In 2007 a British TV show brought a similar tribe to the UK for a documentary. When they returned to their island they were able to settle back into life, but what they saw in the UK shocked the tribesmen.

One member of the tribe asked the producer "Why do the people here treat dogs better than their own people who are living in the street?"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...n-5329192.html

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by sunwings (here)
In 2007 a British TV show brought a similar tribe to the UK for a documentary. When they returned to their island they were able to settle back into life, but what they saw in the UK shocked the tribesmen.

One member of the tribe asked the producer "Why do the people here treat dogs better than their own people who are living in the street?"

https://independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/strange-island-pacific-tribesmen-come-to-study-britain-5329192.html

That's interesting. The series is on YouTube, in multiple 10-minute parts, on this channel:

• https://youtube.com/user/caleb3000/videos

For sure, this was less of an anthropological study than a TV gimmick. (And, maybe an unkind and exploitative one.) But it still offers quite a lot of food for thought.

I'd like to find the reference, but in a similar 'experiment', as best as I an recall from reading about this many years ago, an Amazon tribesman was flown in to either England or the US. [I'd need to check which.] He was silent for much of his experience, and when returned to his tiny village, which he had never before left, he was asked what he felt and thought.

Again from memory, I believe he said something to the effect of: "I just feel extremely sorry for all those people."

If anyone can dig up this story, I'd much appreciate it. I'll also try to find it again myself.

[DNA]

I think it funny anyone who thinks these folks need to be brought into the open arms of the modern world. These folks will be doing better than 99.9 percent of us when the proverbial **** hits the fan.

[DNA]

An article by the SUN listed on The Drudge Report as giving pause to the fact that the missionary is dead. The article hints that the man may still be alive. A great twist indeed if he is found after several months with the natives of the island all converted to Christianity. I'm not a fan of this proposed possible outcome but it would most certainly get made into a Hollywood production of some type. He might even make it into the cannons of sainthood of what ever particular branch of Christianity he practices.





https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/783503...till-be-alive/


WHERE'S HIS BODY? US missionary John Chau who was shot dead with arrows by tribe on remote island may still be ALIVE, friends and family believe

A close friend of John Chau's told The Sun Online authorities should not rule out the possibility that the 26-year-old had survived the attack
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
27th November 2018, 1:24 pm
Updated: 28th November 2018, 5:02 pm



A CHRISTIAN missionary who was shot dead with bows and arrows on a remote Indian island may have survived the attack, his friends and family believe.
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[lunaflare]

If the missionary, John Chao, survived he would more likely be converted to the ways of the Sentinelese.

Their closeness to the Earth and the laws of Nature would give these humans high psychic and intuitive abilities. Their senses are heightened. Sentience...Sentinelese. Surely someone saw the link in the naming! They probably very clearly foresee the outcome of associating with humans from "outside' their world.
And guess what, they don't wish for it...

Why can't they be left alone?

Humankind is curious and thus it seems highly improbable that this could ever be the case. We like to classify, discover, name, claim, convert...

We all have choices.

[hermit]

If there's oil on that island, things would not be as they are

[shaberon]

This also happened to Michael Rockefeller in the 1970s.

That was Indonesia I believe. New Guinea is still quite like this. They have some 800 languages and some of them cannot communicate to each other. Some of them did not know there was such a thing as human beings besides their tribe. By now many of these are contacted and do not have what I would call a particularly appealing way of life. Much different from other so-called primitive islanders like Polynesians who probably do.

New Guinean lifespan is not much more than forty, the degree of disease, violence, and cannibalism is staggering. With the Sentinelese, it's hard to say, but I'm pretty sure if I was them I'd be throwing spears at invaders too.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's a good mini-documentary (19 mins):

SENTINELESE : The World's Most Isolated Tribe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BNwmVvk6g

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=j7BNwmVvk6g

[Kryztian]

A history of Sentinel Island, and attempts to contact it. (20 minutes)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oWarOTnOIeI