Most of the contact has been violent with the last people known to visit the island before Mr Chau being a pair of fisherman whose boat drifted into shore after they moored up nearby in 2006. THE remote tribe have had virtually no contact with the outside world but the little they have had has been bizarre. He was killed on November 17 last year after making repeated trips to North Sentinel on his kayak. 'This is not a pointless thing - the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can't wait to see them around the throne of God worshipping in their own language as Revelation 7:9-10 states.' In a final message to his family, the evangelical Christian from Vancouver, Washington, wrote: 'You guys might think I am crazy in all this but I think it's worth it to declare Jesus to these people. Survival International, an organisation that campaigns for the rights of tribal people, works to ensure that no further attempts are made to contact the tribe. In 2006, two Indian fishermen, who had moored their boat near the island to sleep after fishing near there, were killed when their boat broke loose and drifted onto the shore.Ĭampaigns by non-profit and local organisations have led the Indian government to abandon plans to contact the Sentinelese. The tribe got international attention after the 2004 tsunami, when a member of the tribe was pictured on a beach, firing arrows at a helicopter inspecting their welfare. The small forested island of North Sentinel, which is a similar size to Manhattan, is even off limits to the Indian navy in a bid to protect the tribe of about 150 from being wiped out by disease. They have zero contact with the outside world and are actively hostile to anyone who approaches their land. THE Sentinelese tribe are an indigenous tribe who have thrived on North Sentinal Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, for up to 55,000 years.

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