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The Sentinelese, also known as the Sentineli and the North Sentinel Islanders, are an indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Designated a particularly vulnerable tribal group and a Scheduled Tribe, they belong to the broader class of Andamanese peoples.
The tribe, who have lived in near-total isolation for tens of thousands of years, came to global attention last week after they reportedly killed a 27-year-old American would-be missionary trying...
Nov 30, 2018 · The Sentinelese people are related to other indigenous groups in the Andaman Islands, a chain of islands in India's Bay of Bengal, but they've been isolated for long enough that other Andaman...
The Sentinelese are the most isolated tribe in the world. They live on their own small forested island called North Sentinel, which is approximately the size of Manhattan, and which is part of an island chain that is also home to another uncontacted tribe, the Shompen .
Jun 14, 2023 · The tribe lives on North Sentinel Island, a Manhattan-sized patch of land found between India and Myanmar in the Indian Ocean. It’s illegal to go within five nautical miles (9.26...
Oct 13, 2023 · The lone tribe on a small, remote island, the Sentinelese are perhaps the most isolated people in the world. In 1975 National Geographic published dramatic photographs of Sentinelese shooting...
Dec 7, 2018 · Anthropologist Madhumala Chattopadhyay floated coconuts to the Sentinelese in an unusually friendly exchange with a tribe hostile to outsiders.
Nov 28, 2018 · Administered by India and strictly off-limits to outsiders, coral-fringed North Sentinel Island has been home to the Sentinelese tribe for thousands, possibly even tens of thousands, of...
Oct 13, 2023 · The Sentinelese, as they are known to outsiders—no one has gotten close enough to learn what they call themselves, or even what language they speak—still hunt with bows, arrows, and spears.
Dec 6, 2018 · It is home to the Sentinelese people, who are among the world’s last uncontacted tribes – that is, indigenous groups that maintain no contact with modern civilisation.
