The History of North Sentinel Island - And Why it's Illegal to Visit

With the killing of US Missionary John Allen Chau on the 25th November 2018, a small island in the Indian Ocean called North Sentinel Island became a household name - and his Neolithic, violently isolationist, tribal Sentinelese killers the subject of amazement and mystery. Having lived on their island for around 60,000, they are the modern population group we know the least about, every attempt to land on North Sentinel Island ending in an attack mounted by armed tribesmen on the beach. In this video I'll look at the history of the island and look at how modern events unfolding there can be of anthropological use when looking at the past.
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[@daemonguy2]

Classic Hilly

[@randomname5083]

Bad Hilly

[@qthedisaster1730]

Hilly Willy

[@salutic.7544]

Ibraheem Sajid why do you guys want to see my Willy?

[@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190]

Did you say something dunecoon?

[@adambaum9732]

Ibraheem Sajid Hillary Clinton

[@doofalis]

*tsunami hits India: Lets send a helicopter to see if they’re ok. *Sentinalese shoots them with arrows India: yeah they’re chillin

[@Luaxon]

Did you get that from Steve in JKNews? 😂

[@denizmetint.462]

Living on North Sentinel Island, I can tell you: my neighbors don't like your damn helicopters. They first thought helicopters were some kind of giant bird, but I told them that they were boarded by foreigners and that they could simply shoot them out of the sky.

[@cxarhomell5867]

@@denizmetint.462 what kind of internet do y'all have

[@denizmetint.462]

@@cxarhomell5867 They have no Internet. I only do because I'm their emperor.

[@marysophy3665]

Deniz Metinoğlu T. Oh great emperor !

[@nathandecrom2409]

India: are you guys alright South Sentinal: *shoots arrow* India: yup they are alright

[@Youman-tu8wr]

South?

[@nathandecrom2409]

@@Youman-tu8wr ah bugger welp there the south now

[@goktimusprime]

"Sentinal"??

[@nathandecrom2409]

@@goktimusprime yes from now on its south sentinal

[@Youman-tu8wr]

Goktimus Prime What is this kid on?

[@jeopardized9293]

Fun fact: during ww2 when the Americans and Japanese were fighting over the Pacific, they flew planes over primitive islands. When explorers came to those same islands in the 70's the planes had become gods. With this in mind, it is quite possible that we are seen as devils or some sort of evil spirit.

[@riannasharrma5304]

omg yes-

[@xELITExKILLAx]

To add to this, cargo cults formed from this too. The US built these bases on islands in the pacific where people had little to no contact in the outside world. The soldiers would trade items with the native for local food and resources. These natives would all of the sudden got electricity, new foods, new clothing, etc. Then the war ended, the US packed up and left. Now all these luxuries were gone. No one returned to these islands for decades $74 when we did go back we saw something incredible. So the natives began making clothing that looked like soldiers uniforms and used wood to craft fake guns, they built mock up runaways and air traffic towers and barracks. Then they would march around their fake military base like soldiers and wave sticks at the sky like runaway crewmen would do in hopes that the Americans would return with all the luxuries

[@nazariiblanchard5640]

I mean our western system isn't exactly holy by any means. They might be on to something

[@randomdudeontheinternet5901]

@@xELITExKILLAx imagine a drone show at the island

[@Nagvanshieus]

Japanese fought against British Raj in mainland India and Royal Raj Navy in Indian Ocean, not America.

[@ilikepiracy1264]

I researched this years ago before this blew up a couple of years ago. I remember reading that there were more sentinelese on a neighbouring island that were nearly completely wiped out by disease after the British visited in the 1800s, some of the survivors fled to North Sentinel island and thats when the people started becoming very hostile.

[@theconcealedmistress]

The British have wiped out millions of natives due to their disgusting hygiene. Lol. I'm sure not much has changed 🤣

[@Mamma1999]

Ahh

[@idontknowwhattoputhere.3572]

White people suck.

[@hya2in8]

source?

[@leonodonoghueburke4276]

@@hya2in8 Mate, you're seriously going to "Source bro" a 2 year old comment? Stop being lazy and put in the most base level of effort

[@DreamFearEternal]

Missionary: Here is my 2000 year old religion Tribes men: Here is my 60000 year old bow and arrow

[@morerog3108]

If you go back to abraham it older than 2000 if you go back Adam even older

[@bartjohannes4039]

@@morerog3108 thats jewish

[@praetorkambu]

@@bartjohannes4039 Christianity is just an extension or reformation of Temple Judaism.

[@bartjohannes4039]

@@praetorkambu I know I know, but it is debateable whether christianity started 6000 years ago or at the birth of jesus

[@praetorkambu]

@@bartjohannes4039 Fair enough, but then it's just as debatable whether Rabbinical "Judaism" started in the Middle Ages or 6000 years ago as well.

[@NoobCakeHunterD]

They probably watching this video laughing under their highly advanced underground civilization

[@Syndixal]

Wakanda?

[@ari3lz3pp3lin]

lol

[@ari3lz3pp3lin]

Best comment

[@drurywalker463]

This is officially true. I believe it now.

[@skizzik121]

The internet has 0 incorrect information this is obviously true.

[@oscarwind4266]

For an island thats illegal to vist it has 2 five star Google reviews. The more you know

[@ImNotReallyHereMCFC]

Missionary: id like to talk to you about Jesus Tribe: did you bring coconuts? Missionary: erm no? Tribe: .....

[@rahulnarjiary4887]

Under Indian laws, getting killed by this tribe is the same as getting killed by a pack of wolves. They cannot be prosecuted. They have federal protection. Even the Indian Navy isn't allowed to operate their warships in the vicinity of this island. Legally speaking , the term murder/homicide might not even be applicable. Let's just say that Mr. Chau committed suicide.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Link please?

[@chupacabra9357]

@@MultiSciGeek Why do you need a link, is it that hard to believe?

[@avochristos7834]

@@chupacabra9357 because accountability and credibility requires an evidence.

[@rullangaar]

Rahul Narjiary Interesting. Are there other tribes in India with a similar status?

[@grimtheghastly8878]

Well, I wouldn't say suicide because he didn't intend to die so...

[@Rujewitblood]

We are basically aliens to them

[@shobh-webflow]

Modern aliens

[@niksatt4843]

Rujewitblood not really. You aren’t too smart are you.

[@australiananarchist480]

@@niksatt4843 nigga what? He's right. We look different to them, and to them helicopters would be basically a UFO to them. A ship would be a UFO as well (unidentified floating object)

[@BeerCanBennytheIV]

Stolen from lemino

[@darkwind7374]

@@niksatt4843 omfg ur the idiot here

[@Phildo8]

There’s actually a dozen or so uncontacted tribes in the world today

[@aviationlover3613]

Bruh i think they are still thinking that their new iron arrows are the strongest weapons on Earth

[@johannschmidt3389]

I love how we accidentally started the Iron Age for them

[@alexmudiappan1287]

That can't be true they know how to smelt iron from iron ore. Truly iron age much older than plse think.

[@johannschmidt3389]

Alex Alex, I'm sure eventually they figured out that by heating the metal, it would be easier to shape, but they don't have a reliable method of heating it to a melting point

[@alexmudiappan1287]

@@johannschmidt3389 iron age is much older native Americans separated from Africa, Asia and Europe long before 1100bc they used iron tools.

[@johannschmidt3389]

Alex Alex, in the Book of Genesis, it mentions a man who made tools from Bronze and Iron, I always wondered how that came to be before the Iron Age

[@alexmudiappan1287]

@@johannschmidt3389 I don't know from when on Australian aboriginal people and south Pacific islander separated from rest of the world but they too use iron weapons. In south Pacific island the boats are carved from single wood very ancient. Only African people who separated from rest of the world for long time use this. They use iron tools to carve it so iron age is far older to primitive forms of boat. Boats are older than 40000 years.

[@dantheman5745]

My mother-in-law wants to go on holiday. I told her North Sentinel Island is beautiful this time of year.

[@lesleylaurence6056]

Dan the Man, ........... Do you want her to die or something 😂

[@lotusx4389]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ionasamuel1502]

😂

[@denizmetint.462]

I'm the only foreigner allowed on North Sentinel Island. They don't accept more than one immigrant. Every foreigner who tries to get here illegally gets shot by arrows or sacrificed to Humbaba.

[@asideofaioli4630]

Such a sweet in-law you are. She's blessed to have you 💗

[@billy4734]

These tribes are really interesting. It's like watching a piece of history as it happens.

[@grapefruit9308]

What if we are the sentinelese of the universe?

[@danboland3775]

Imagine the native mythology that must have formed around the outside world. Strangers show up every number of years. Once, some people were taken and returned. Huge vessels made of strange metal have washed up. A few days after a tsunami a strange flying thing shows up in the skies. Even in the coconut contact video you can hear the noise of the boat that must have been terrifying to them. What sort of folklore would accompany these events?

[@rvanhees89]

Exactly. For me, the helicopter in the sky could be a god, or the largest and loudest bird of prey ever! And these guys respond with: lets fuck em up Imagine the thoughts that are going through their minds.

[@KingDayDayDay00]

Yeah imagine leaving them a smart phone and then talking to then through video live on a boat far back just to mind fuck the hell out of them lmao. Theyd probably attack the phone

[@sammexp]

They probably also see airplanes or boats a lot of times. There's an airport not so far from there! Maybe for them, it's a flying Dragon.

[@rvanhees89]

@@calamusgladiofortior2814 nice!

[@Gelato556]

Google Cargo Cults. Similar to what you're saying, they were isolated tribes in the South Pacific who encountered US and Japanese GIs that they believed were gods. Some of the tribes today still burn effigy's of WWII fighter planes in hope that it'll bring the GIs back.

[@quickminutetv4170]

These people don’t even know that there are memes about them

[@dragenmaster5385]

ye so sad

[@0hn0haha]

Truly tragic

[@whiterunguard1434]

They don't even know what memes are

[@tricksor6589]

@@whiterunguard1434 they don't even know what they are

[@tricksor6589]

how to tell the person above is a boomer: talking in all caps "hey i noticed" against muslims & africans anyway, shouldnt asia keep foreigners out too because they should get the right to not have their culture changed by christians and americans?

[@HaggisDruid]

This is a great video dude, thank you! I feel like most videos only cover the surface of common interactions with the island, and why you can't visit. But you brought up multiple points of contact I never knew about, such as the one about coconuts. Well done!

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

the Sentinelese are amazing, and I hope that they will continue to live in their traditional ways for a long time to come.

[@rogerwilson53]

Send a modern camera turned on after getting their attention, get the fuck out of there see if the footage can ever get returned. Not a good idea because i just came up with it

[@brianbruno1786]

@@rogerwilson53 lol

[@raulduke6953]

There’s another word for them , lazy . It takes a special kind of laziness to be on this earth for 60,000 years and make no technological advances past the pointy sticks they made on day 1 . I’m glad they have you to decide for them what’s best for them ,even though you could live like them in your back garden you choose to sleep inside in a bed but you would deny them that . I guess if you live in hell it will be worse if you find out about heaven.

[@williamthebonquerer9181]

Bruh they hardly have the recourses to do so. They are a small population how many inventions have you made?

[@raulduke6953]

@@williamthebonquerer9181 Ive started fires by accident. They cant even invent that

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

It's like in Civilization. These guys are that one barb camp on an island in the middle of the ocean that no-one bothered to settle.

[@sebster555]

Heart of Iron RGF I thought of the same thing as well

[@geraldsoria1764]

I usually just nuke the island

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

@@Brickimated Damn It feels good to be White.

[@randomlynamed3353]

@@Brickimated If you have no idea what he's talking about why would you comment, let alone jump to quasi racism?

[@dylanp7817]

Zachary Leatherwood what if i was playing as Songhai

[@Kehwanna]

*Swims to the island's shore after escaping plane crash "Ha! Take that Death! I'm alive!"

[@aaronvirdee5813]

There was once an Indian prisoner who ended up on the island as part of his escape... He failed to bring coconuts.

[@sran438]

*arrows to face* “Damn it!!”

[@brookboi_6992]

Hi alive have an arrow

[@matthiasthulman4058]

Sounds like the plot of a good movie

[@auramaster2068]

*arrow penetrating skin.mp4* "Is that me or is that pain in the back of my neck?"

[@hansgruber6122]

Great job Man. Very informative and interesting. You kept me engaged.

[@isaweesaw]

Can't help but admire them. I can only imagine what it would be like to be born on that island. I wonder how they perceive the outside world

[@Skankhunt668]

Why they are murderers

[@isaweesaw]

@@Skankhunt668 I mean, I'm curious what their worldview is. I don't think I'd enjoy a stone age lifestyle

[@Skankhunt668]

@Katora Khan yes still murderers

[@Skankhunt668]

@Flamango Master Oui II why

[@Skankhunt668]

@Katora Khan yes they are

[@napzkins]

Someone really said “These people don’t even know that there are memes about them” Bruh they don’t even know what memes are

[@hanifkennedy8324]

R/woooosh

[@neroquin]

..so they also don't know there's some about them.

[@adipratapsinghaps]

They don't even know

[@howardthealien2606]

Yemi what is a M E M E

[@youraveragejoe2]

@Yemi not everyone sits on the internet looking at that shit.

[@truesoulghost2777]

Just imagine how bad ass the warriors there think they are after driving ships and helicopters away. Not ever realizing what they can do. Props though for sure, they may not have discovered metals themselves yet, but they have balls of steel.

[@Galaxy-rj1kj]

James Goku facts

[@beair_917]

No one has taken a gun yet what happens if they learn to shot?

[@sondralee2387]

This IS survival of the fittest

[@thelelanatorlol3978]

They have actually discovered metal.. in the form of sunken ships which they salvage and turn into arrowheads

[@niksatt4843]

Finn Mertins I’m pretty sure they know their arrows have no effect on that shit and I’m pretty sure they at least know it’s not something to be fucked with. They just don’t give up fights because they aren’t house broken buffoons like you in the modern world. I don’t think you are very intelligent.

[@raainydaay]

phenomenal video. you have a new subscriber!

[@jrsun]

Nice video. This is the first video of yours that I watched, and I just subscribed.

[@atharvasapre8578]

Missionary:- Hey! Meet Jesus! Sentinelese:- You First.

[@krudeddie]

Thats fucked up.....funny has hell thoe.

[@Jitendrakotai]

Hilarious !

[@Shadow_Wolf_190]

Tragic...but he should’ve know better

[@Knave_Orange_24]

Lol

[@Rex-wn3yf]

ha ha...good one

[@destinconnor6233]

I’d pay a fortune to watch a reality show about just the daily lives of these guys.

[@hiiamnicehiiamnice5697]

Around 1990s or 1980s: A person got shot with arrows while filming

[@dylangoddard7449]

I mean seeing as they are still in the stone age they would probably just hunt and fish all day

[@davidheeneman4408]

There is a dutch and begium reality show where a western family go and life with a hunter gatherer tribe in Africa and Papua New Guinea. Its called "Groeten uit de rimboe" & "Belgen in de rimboe". In "De groeten terug." the hunter gatherer family is brought to Holland to live with the same dutch family. You can find it on youtube, even though its in Dutch you feel the mutual confusion and curiosity of both "us" and "them" in an alien world.

[@GarryWilliams555]

they would just kill the camera crew lol

[@JohnSmith-cv7yo]

Episode 1: “So this is my hut... kinda breezy at night but I just pull a pig blanket over me and it’s like I have walls”

[@BomberKommando91]

I've seen Documentaries about places like this.... Thanks for the video, you might have saved lives with this..!

[@falcosk8]

Enjoyed this! Good information!

[@Spoon80085]

Imagine being a Stone Age hunter and seeing a helicopter. I would think it’s god

[@universalelement]

😂😂😂 I dont think they think of a God that way.

[@nsms1297]

@@universalelement they will think an ancient aliens

[@jiraffe9600]

Nsm S Do they know about what space is like.

[@nsms1297]

@@jiraffe9600 no they do not know what space is like. They were scared and attacked whatever my country sent like helicopters because their immune systems are weak. They had no contact with outside world. Like native Americans they will die within days when they meet a normal person from outside world. So they consider us dangerous and attack us.

[@jiraffe9600]

Nsm S Yeah they have every right to be scared and attack. While I think they are scared that will we attack, moreso than diseases.

[@supermari246]

If windows 98 was a tribe

[@tricksor6589]

you mean windows 1.0

[@synzap]

i am cheeese no, he means windows 98

[@survivalstyle9228]

i am cheeese like 1998

[@KnzoVortex]

Isn’t that a tad racist?

[@kendsplaining]

Jack Shroom windows 98 is pretty modern if you think about it

[@AbhikMallik]

Hi there...I am from Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands,...thank you for this video🤗❤️🇮🇳🏝️✈️🏞️🌄

[@nicktraffica6080]

I wish my history class taught me this

[@slyricky9502]

Its so unimportant lol

[@a.s.2662]

@@slyricky9502 for u... But many people will find it interesting & be aware of the actual world they live in instead of living in the past

[@duchesstyra]

@@a.s.2662 I find it interesting

[@Frixworks]

The only non-clickbait video I could find about this group.

[@mowvu5380]

Hilbert doesn't do clickbait. imagine it's 2014 when you're here lol. straight up wholesome history and flags👍

[@aaronrobertson5141]

what if Earth is the North Sentinel Island of the universe o.O

[@nsms1297]

No, watch ancient aliens

[@dennisdaniel1208]

@@nsms1297 gay

[@generalgrievous2202]

@@nsms1297 Im NoT sAyiNG It WAs AliENs BuT it WaS aLiEnS.

[@mangodip2170]

@@nsms1297 that's shit

[@amazinggrace5692]

Heavy! Twilight zone-ish!

[@anthonycrowley2778]

Thank you for your honest informative knowledgeable post

[@evolveausevolveaus]

Top quality info !

[@pg9193]

Let's send Logan Paul as our lead diplomat!

[@thedave7760]

He wouldn't know how to get there flat earthers cant use a proper map. Yeah look it up he is now a flat earther.

[@karlakirkpatrick8927]

and don't forget his brother

[@kayseek1248]

P G they can both communicate with grunts and screams.

[@safehouse432]

The Dave they will be anything if it makes people talk about them. They say if you say their names 3 times in the mirror they will show up and put you in their video.

[@flamesofchaos13]

What IF that worked and the Sentinelese become Paulers? No I'm serious guys THINK of the consequences if the Paul Brothers conquer the Island! Dire days would befall us all I tell you!

[@lol-zb8to]

even if that missionary guy managed to get to the island, how is he gonna teach them about christianity when nobody knows the language of the sentinelese?

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

the spaniards didn't know the language either.

[@DarthPerkins]

Language is incidental; the love of Jesus Christ is understood by all. Oh, plus they're going to eat him.

[@moth.monster]

@@DarthPerkins Ah, learn through consumption.

[@MrBabyStunna101]

wrong they aren't cannibals. no tribe in the sentinel islands practise cannabalism @@DarthPerkins

[@timothymclean]

I assume he'd read the bit where the disciples start speaking in tongues and had a lightbulb flash over his head.

[@mariasantiago7391]

6:50- what’s the name of this background song? I can’t find it on the song list on the description.

[@lRedPosion]

Het is toch prachtig dat ondanks alle veranderingen er nog 1 plek is waar tijd is stil gestaan voor de mens. Ben benieuwd hoe lang ze zullen voort bestaan. Mooie video en heel informatief! 😁

[@floatingf8783]

That one warrior knew what Leopold the second did to the Congo. That's why he was so aggressive.

[@arkadeepkundu4729]

Maybe he should have offered them some waffles

[@valentins.2637]

Different Leopold

[@scyobiempire4450]

Lautaro Rodriguez r/Woooosh

[@HKMUSICWORLDTV]

✅

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

@@valentins.2637 Not different ,he was the son of that bastard Leopold 2nd

[@SylvEdu]

Can you imagine the mythology of these people? That their people are the last of the good men, held up on an island surrounded by dragons and evils that they cannot even comprehend, and that they alone have demonstrated their power by repelling the evil for hundreds or thousands of years. They probably tell war-stories about destroying the demons who try to engulf their island and seek to rule the world. While we are just trying to be like, "Hey guys, wassup?" and we all know that we could wipe them out if we wanted without a single casualty, they probably regard us as a spiritual enemy that they alone have been successful in repelling for very particular spiritual reasons -- how else could you explain your bows and arrows slaying these giant beasts of war. I bet their was even a local dispute about whether they could safely use the iron of the demon realm. I would love to know this people's religion.

[@marujitadiaz9019]

Are you aware that some "primitive" peoples don't have any religion at all (nor any spirits)? Look up Pirahã people.

[@abethepunk]

I wish there was a way to watch them, that would be so interesting. Like an actual reality show.

[@funkytiger8683]

Been reading Attack on Titan have we?

[@turtletail313]

@@marujitadiaz9019 most tribal cultures are animistic so I'm willing to bet the sentinalese are too. I just looked up Pirahã people though and it's very interesting!

[@ethpling165]

Marujita Díaz Historically it’s more likely that these tribes have mythology. It’s certainly interesting to speculate

[@williamjameslehy1341]

I mean it's entirely possible that they practised cannibalism in Marco Polo's time but have given it up in the 700 years since then. It's a common misconception that uncontacted stone age tribes are totally culturally stagnant, in reality their lifestyle changes over the generations even if their technology doesn't seem to advance.

[@ArztvomDienst]

You can still see the shipwreck in the north-west of the island on satelite images, amazing.

[@SammyPerez.]

You ever just light a lighter to flex on these guys

[@erickheimer569]

you ever hug a cow to flex on these guys

[@againstobs]

weird flex but ok

[@SanilJadhav711]

You ever just use your flush to flex on these guys ? Oh wait ... but I am an Indian , I don't have a toil-

[@onarix]

i used to flex lighters on these guys.. then i took an arrow to the knee

[@SanilJadhav711]

@@onarix Lmao , Skyrim reference

[@stevencoates3382]

60,000 year old tribe gets hit with a tsunami, then shoots arrows at helicopters checking on them. Jesus!!!

[@TianoAnnunziata]

They probably thought the helicopter and stories and boats and stuff sent the tsunami to punish them or something

[@delancey3181]

The earth is only 6000 years old so no (well humanity not earth)

[@TianoAnnunziata]

Ellie B humans are a lot older than 6000 years

[@trashbank6148]

@@delancey3181 what ? How do you explain the Han Dynasty? If you're referring to the Bible. It's because the Bible is written when the earliest civilisation to exist were the Sumerians. But there has been humans for hundreds of thousands of years. Otherwise, how do you explain Aboriginals and Native Americans ? How did there to begin with.

[@waynemcgowan3221]

@@delancey3181 😂🤦

[@chengong388]

These guys finding a cargo ship entirely made of by far the strongest material they’ve ever seen, wonder what they think the implication might be.

[@PlanetZoidstar]

I would posit a theory that the Sentinelese COULD use fire in previous centuries (as per the report), but the knowledge was lost over time. This has happened on other islands where the native population became isolated from the outside world. Their technology not only stagnated, but actually regressed. As happened with the natives of New Zealand compared to their Australian Aboriginee comtemparies, the more advanced forms of hunting and fishing were lost over the centuries of isolation.

[@raulduke6953]

Fire is day 1 technology, it’s only rubbing two sticks together it’s not building a v8 cylinder block . They are lazy and thick

[@PlanetZoidstar]

@@raulduke6953 Any manner of things can cause technology to be lost to time. It only takes 1 generation failing to pass on the knowledge for it to be lost forever.

[@raulduke6953]

@@PlanetZoidstar Fire though ? The thing you build every day to cook ? Warmth at night/light ,One of the first things they teach children? No you don’t lose that , they never even had it .

[@PlanetZoidstar]

@@raulduke6953 What if someone forgets to teach how to make axes? That tool you need to gather wood?

[@raulduke6953]

@@PlanetZoidstar Good job they haven’t forgotten how to put food in their mouths or sharpen sticks for arrows . Stop apologising for them , the ability to make fire is the knowledge of every member of a tribe down to children . It’s the most basic technology that doesn’t even need to be passed down if you spend a 40 year life on a island with nothing but trees , at least all other humans managed it . Their ignorance is their saviour because they would have run out of resources a long time ago if they had burnt trees and been forced of the island anyway .

[@87anon420jb]

Turn the background music down, or turn your mic volume up. Your voice gets drowned out throughout the video. Otherwise great job!

[@aarondilley5266]

especially hard during the first half with all the heavy drumming

[@hobble9713]

Exactly! plus i just watched a horror movie, so those drums playing ain't helping

[@sensaivers]

The vocals need to be turned up at least 3db, instrumental(s) or not.

[@drexldog]

Agreed. I stopped watching cause I couldn't understand half of what he was saying.

[@Martin-di9pp]

Agreed.

[@goodlookingcorpse]

'Uncontacted people' is a somewhat misleading phrase: they know the modern world is out there, they just don't want anything to do with it.

[@troodon1096]

It would be more accurate to describe them as "non-integrated."

[@KenMabie]

How do you know they don't think helicopters are birds and these other people are witches or demons... they know nothing of the modern world... go watch the film "the gods must be crazy" it's a perfect example of what these people are like

[@WadsworthGaming]

@@KenMabie i watched that movie for a film study in school, excellent movie

[@dragonsember]

well the extent of the modern world they are aware of is extremely limited to that of boats, aircrafts, and other outsiders or technology who happen to get close to them. they are totally unaware of our culture or how much culture is shared around the world thanks to the rapid advancements in instant international communication.

[@roastking860]

that's not true. Imagine a farmer who lives on a farm that doesn't use modern technology. No electricity, no running water. He pumps his water from a well and uses candles to see in the dark. He knows the modern world exists and knows at any point in time, he could probably travel 30 miles on his wagon and get to civilization. Now imagine a group of people who have been on a single island for thousands of years and every once in awhile they see a white/brown man who speaks gibberish. They kill him and life goes on. Most of them, I reckon 95% of them, have no idea what the modern world is. Even those who have communicated and breathed in what modern humans offered them had no understanding of the modern world. Do you think a traveler went to the island and explained to someone even the most basic version of our modern world (disregarding smart technology). "Our society works to where not everyone has to hunt for their food, we are protected by people payed by food, and living conditions are very good". Why wouldn't someone say yes to that? In short, I don't think you could call them non-integrated into the modern world if most of them don't even know what the modern world is. As the previous commenter stated "Helicopter? Or angry evil metal bird God"?

[@mouhou9795]

ja die videos zijn wel mooi jonge.

[@patrickhastings3733]

it needs to be properly renamed to "fck around find out" island

[@Abike1999]

I watched an interview with some of the people from their neighboring tribe. I think they were the Jawara. It was actually quite sad. He said that the outside world wouldn’t listen to their wishes and that they just wanted to be left alone. He also talked about them being given alcohol and cigarettes, but not being told about how bad they were for their health.

[@galaxyguy4247]

Sad.

[@juniiiior999]

Yeah it’s actually Jarawa and not “Jawara”

[@connorjarvie3811]

@@juniiiior999 where can I watch this interview? I’m interested

[@ayymen]

@@connorjarvie3811 Just search for Jarawa France 24 on KZbin.

[@aeon9311]

They never ask for anything, don’t want any help, don’t want welfare, and are fully self-sufficient. Leave them alone.

[@NamesZKP]

Unlike your ilk

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

They'll eventually die out do to incest so i don't mind

[@caelestisnox7045]

@@Bell_Matt "savages"? We have annual salmonella outbreaks, raised up to be apathetic twords what we eat for food, every century has a cholera outbreak, fecal matter related outbreaks. As primitive as that island is they are not fucking up beaching whales with plastic lol

[@hogglife2394]

Exactly

[@marshallemmet1366]

Agreed

[@garylawlor2288]

Savage video mate, pun intended 😁

[@ImNotSoLegit]

The tsunami fact is super interesting. I wonder if they have some sort of instinct/intuition about those sort of things through being on the island for so many generations-

[@kmj2000]

These people aren't dumb. They had really violent encounters with outsiders in the past and as a result have decided to protect themselves. I'm sure they know the modern world exists, they just don't want any part of it.

[@natesturm448]

They know the modern world exists; fuck they seen motor-boats so that just shows them something different is out there. They just don't know how advanced it is.

[@thegreath.sapiensapien6907]

and they dont need to believed in nothings or pray the SUN take care of them.

[@autumnhomer9786]

kmj2000 I read that in the past a man went there when they were friendly took some of the children and raped them. Those who survived returned back told their tribe and since then, they have been hostile.

[@JackyTMusic]

@@autumnhomer9786 Do you have a source?

[@commonsense2235]

kmj2000, they have a very limited understanding of modern society. If they could understand it It’s likely they would want to join.

[@mockzu]

Well.. I’ll tell you where we’re not landing boys...

[@ray7222]

Tfue_Fanboy use code tfue in bottom of the item shop

[@lerambo499]

Dumbass kids

[@hanifkennedy8324]

Dumbass boomer

[@mazuki7602]

Diego Afaga look, a fucking 💥 negative (b) er

[@sthomas7211]

I feel the same way when someone knocks on my door trying to sell me something!

[@Mark28644]

Just terrible, that young man tragically lost his life. But these people want to be left alone & isolate themselves from the outside world. And I don't blame them either!!

[@barking_mad6649]

Not a tragedy, he knowingly broke the law and died trying to contact what he considered to be "Satan's last stronghold on Earth". Bloke was an idiot.

[@JohnnyLodge2]

It is entirely impressive that they have been able to remain so primitive. Like they never even thought to explore the nearby islands either. Their history, myth and folklore must be incredible if they have any.

[@shadymerchant1198]

they lost the technology to sail or perhaps never had it and their population is so small and isolated that sailing wasn't invented nor brought to them

[@Hopeofmen]

It's crazy, though, how the Iron Age possibly has been jumped off because those metal ships crashed on the shoals.

[@Alexander-tu3iv]

@@Hopeofmen If it is true that they don't know how to make fire it probably won't go beyond sharpened iron tools. Maybe some jewelry as well, but they are going to need forges to actually revolutionize anything

[@ludwiggrundberg7050]

@@Alexander-tu3iv If i'm gonna be completely honest, they are going to discover how to make fire sooner or later in our lifetime. When they do it will really kick of the development, now when they have iron and all.

[@Alexander-tu3iv]

@@ludwiggrundberg7050 hmm you have a point especially if there's flint on the island. Still it's a big leap from having fire to metallurgy especially since they have a low population the chance that someone figures it out will be lowered.

[@12345678900987659101]

A Belgian king named Leopold approaching the island? They must have heard of other Belgian named Leopold's adventure in the Belgian Congo.

[@johnwills1748]

The one where 10 million people didn't die right?

[@EmpireTVDragon]

Soon, all North Sentinelese will be handless

[@thelakeman2538]

@Hello, Sidney! At what cost though ,killing 10 million people in return for making a small country great by that logic one could justify Stalin .

[@ActiveAussie2024]

@@johnwills1748, maybe not 10 million, but a lot of people were tortured and killed in the Congo by the Belgians under order of King Leopold in the late 1800"s. All over the need for rubber.

[@samroxeva]

Too bad they didn't finish him off

[@galaxyguy4247]

I don't think the island is actually cannibals. If you look at the story of john chau, when he got killed (because he was bothering them, got kicked out 3 times, and a previous bad experience with a modern human), the sentinelese buried him. And there are some more stories.

[@Interstellar2123]

Dear modern age humans...Leave them alone

[@regular-joe]

Did I miss something? How do they still have a viable population if they've been interbreeding for 60k years?

[@samizdat_]

I've been thinking the same thing.

[@Rockzzzv]

It's not interbreeding. They probably have many diff tribes there. No tribal people interbreeds. It has only been found in one or two tribes

[@HGRAP1]

Rockzzzv it’s a small place, there has to be interbreeding to some degree. Even larger more diverse places (like the middle east and iceland) have some problems due to their (relatively) low genetic diversity

[@bhargavsavaliya7386]

Number estimated 400 Maximum, but no one is clear as they hardly comes on shore out of dense rain forest canopy, so most of their population is hidden under tropical forest.... And no one could enter inside the island, just got killed on the shore... So people have no idea about their population

[@josephmoore286]

Interbreeding is fine once the bad genes are removed. Check out the story of the Mauritius kestrel. There were only 3 males and 1 female left at one point. Interbreeding was fine since the species had already been established on the small island for a long time from a small group of individuals.

[@jalontf2]

Drop a coke bottle in the middle and recreate The Gods Must Be Crazy

[@lodke1697]

Classic!!!

[@rickyjohnbaldoque8433]

Damn right lol

[@sherethadaniels9545]

Idiot

[@hmangaihak5916]

😂😂

[@mgtowproperties]

Jalon Fonseca lol Good one

[@aceclubbs6771]

Have always found these people very interesting. I find it amazing and hope they stay the way they are forever.

[@Tinmar_Isation]

Pretty sure the Sentinelese are watching this video on their 4K TV drinking a strawberry mojito and having a good laugh.

[@kingkuda4206]

I would really like one of them to tell the story of their people it would be amazing to hear their Legends,historic events,belief etc.

[@nikkinicole4990]

It makes me wonder if there are people somewhere on earth who think this about us, people who are much farther advanced than us. If they can be so far behind I bet we are far behind someone too and with how advanced our technology is, the people who are farther than us could easily make themselves undetectable.

[@AsitdyaDsr]

Yes. They must be having tons of those secrets( treasures or entrances ?!) from 1000s of years. They never allowed anyone inside the island to their settlements. All we see is people who are protecting the beach.

[@endersdragon34]

I wonder if we could sneak some sort of camera onto the island and watch them and learn about their society. Maybe solar powered, camouflaged, and using a drone?

[@AsitdyaDsr]

@@endersdragon34 Yeah, without human direct presence , if we can sneaking in some technology ( unbreakable) to observe what secrets( life/settlements) their are guarding would be an awesome discovery. Drones doesn’t work as the vegetation is too thick.

[@endersdragon34]

@@AsitdyaDsr even learning to speak their language would allow for future communication to be possible. I'm sure that intelligence agencies have a way to get a camera someplace like that without it being seen.

[@NikkiM.]

No Wi-Fi, they can keep it.

[@osamabinladen2018]

Oof

[@johnh8705]

No whitey

[@randomname5083]

@ They d... I mean might

[@liamgeiger7549]

Did anyone mention oil?

[@Somnivers]

@Stuck in the 90s Nobody is forcing you to use it.

[@debbieanne7962]

The north Sentenilese I believe were able to read signals from nature, ie birds and tides to warn of the tsunami and they went to higher ground As well as the native Americans being decimated so to were the native aborigine of Australia

[@mattcrowley7867]

"They may actually be wiped out because of germs, not even because of his preaching' hahaha

[@SM-ge7ee]

Just imagine being born on that island and never told there was other places than that island, if we go there we’d seem like some aliens to them with high tech and stuff

[@KrisVic91]

Bet they're happier.

[@orangew3988]

They know lots about us. They know that we arrive and steal their people and they know that every time we come to the island, people get sick.

[@SM-ge7ee]

Orange W that’s not enough description of the “outside” world. That’s pretty much the obvious that was probably passed down from generations for them.

[@tony.2902]

They know more about us than u think 😂😂😂

[@nikkinicole4990]

@@orangew3988 it’s honestly sad that these people think they are stupid just because they live differently than we do, we have no idea about them. Why do people just assume they are stupid and need our help. It reminds me of the colonization of Africa.

[@the_pureindian]

tsunami: hits the island Indian navy: Are they ok? Sentinels shots arrow at them Indian Navy: Sab Changa Si

[@adidasbhoy8212]

The longest running rust server ever

[@nickboi7270]

They’re so bad because they’ve always been primlocked. They should raid oil rig or cargo

[@simonhughes2902]

Can't wait till one of them to build a boat and float into the modern city, just have no concept of what they are seeing

[@yanivgalmor1747]

Exe.barin stopped working

[@yanivgalmor1747]

@Nunya Business its an deyslexic brain

[@EzioIlMentore]

Next up, we gotta send Logan and Jake Paul to the island to film a Cannibal Holocaust reboot.

[@Titanic_Tuna]

With a no return flight

[@somerandomperson6141]

They probably think that the helicopters are some flying aliens

[@Anon1gh3]

They literally are.

[@maddy4877]

I think it's so cool to Still have people like this

[@studierstudier6827]

they should be left alone. I would love to hear their language though!!

[@tonymugs5176]

Studier Studier we should just keep letting them live like that?

[@studierstudier6827]

J DOES Everthing it’s for their protection too, we carry a lot of diseases and bacterias that we are immune to but they are not, so if we made contact with these people we could end up accidentally killing them cos they don’t have immunity against the same diseases we do

[@racheljemmottvlogs5659]

J DOES Everthing yea! its fine their bodies are used to it

[@ashleyjade333]

J DOES Everthing it’s for their protection. they like it and we can’t understand their language there’s nothing we can do anything, and like they said before our immune systems r so different. they go so far back that trying to help them would probably do more bad then good

[@aviationlover3613]

@@ashleyjade333 the WHAT

[@bexer2172]

Sentinels living in peace Random Christian dude : it's free real estate

[@slantedyee5621]

It should be ''satans last stronghold''

[@thepotato405]

@@slantedyee5621 satan has no stronghold. God can make satan die because he plugged an AC to DC power converter into a purple potato. Hes that powerful and mysterious. Satan has no power.

[@user-kp1pz6zv8y]

@@slantedyee5621 lol why cause they dont know jesus like you do. Idiot!

[@slantedyee5621]

@@thepotato405 It was a quote that the missionary said before he died.

[@ashleyjade333]

loki LMAOOO

[@donashcroft93]

I think a lot of us who want to make some kind of contact with them mostly just wanna say "hey we will leave you be if thats what you want, we just wanted you to know we are here and if you ever need help you can always ask" more like we want them to know we are freindly rather than anythink like force them to be part of the modern world

[@ethanfairweather8736]

I highly doubt they don’t know about the outside world. We make more than enough noise on a day to day basis.

[@Zer-db1bp]

I think they are aware of our existence but don’t quite understand the nature of it.

[@dee74raz]

I read I believe in an article where they interviewed TN Pandit, the Indian anthropologist who visited the island and he mentioned that the Sentinelese don't know how to create fire, but know how to keep fires (more likely small fires) going after lightning strikes on the island. So you're right in that they don't know how to create fires, but they do have fires existing on the island, which the Sentinelese keep burning. The fires would generally be small and of course would not be big, because that would burn the whole island and finish them off.

[@tajneeley]

Geralt of Rivia or just let them live their lives in peace ??

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@tajneeley maybe if they did murder people in cold blood. We get upset when Trump uses tear gas on illegal immigrants but give these guys a pass for murdering trespassers? I thought we were all equal

[@Hanyousan1661]

​@@GeraltofRivia22 Guess we gotta say it slow for the special needs kid in class. They. Are. Stone. Age. Humans. They are behaving not much differently from how we suspect many (not all) ancient tribes may have. That is their territory. They have made it *explicitly* clear multiple times that they do not want outsiders in their territory. That Jesus-freak Chow dude even got a "second chance". The first time he went onto the island, they chased him off, leaving him with cuts cuts and bruises. They can't speak any "modern" language. How else do you expect them to tell trespassers to f off? That simple b*tch walked himself back onto the island the very next day, because jeebus. And he died. The Sentinelese have made it clear, repeatedly, FOR CENTURIES, that they shun the outside world. It is ILLEGAL by Indian law to even approach the island. And yet you are mad, and advocating genocide no less, because this 'Murican moron paid the ultimate price not only for disobeying the law, but disobeying the taboo of the island inhabitants while knowing that they are hostile? And it isn't even like they are interested in leaving their island and attacking people, they just want others to Stay. Out. They don't want anything we have, they don't want jeebus, cellphones, or to die horribly of disease. They just want to be left alone. We get upset when the resident moron tear-gasses people, because he is breaking domestic laws. The people he is attacking are trying to present themselves at a legal Port of Entry to request asylum, which is perfectly legal in the U.S.A. Now, if the U.S. withdrew from all international trade and treaties, and completely shut its borders to entry or exit any kind, we would have the right to kill anyone who crossed our borders, provided we made that known ahead of time. That would be our law, and no other country could really say anything about it so long as we stayed home. Finally...fix your black-and-white morality. You sound like a six-year-old, lacking any understanding of nuance, human nature, anthropology, and...really, just about everything that helps a human navigate history, probability, and interpersonal understanding. It's embarrassing.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Hanyousan1661 No, I couldn't give a fuck about the missionary piece of shit. Those savages should be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. If they die from disease, too bad.

[@Hanyousan1661]

@@GeraltofRivia22 So you're going all "internet tough guy" because you feel like some "lesser people" need to be killed so you can get hard? You are mad because they are't like you, and have no interest in changing? Ugh. I am sick of weaklings. You're pitiful and empty enough to want to hurt people because...? You think they are uncivilized? You...I would hesitate to call a person. You seem like a black hole of desperation and narcissism, needing to impose your will on people who have nothing to do with you, simply because you think they should die for wanting nothing to do with the modern world. The hell does it matter to you that they wish to remain isolated? Are you even within a two thousand mile radius of these people? I bet you would be the first one to snivel and whine when someone played by your rules. Maybe someone should drag *you* kicking and screaming into society's version of normalcy? Maybe they should haul you to an institution to shock, beat, and drug you until you're fit to exist among the rest of us. And if you die while good people are wasting their time trying to "correct" you 1940s institution style...too bad. You were too much of an impotent, worthless, violent beast to begin with, insisting on offending normal people with your "freakishness". Oh? We are all people, and have the right to live and think how we choose and not be forced to conform? Not according to you. You should know you hold a very...abnormal view of things, and by your own rules, you should be corrected, regardless of what you want, and regardless of whether you'd live through it.

[@GordonGarvey]

They've seen our helicopters. Wouldn't be surprised if they think we're supernatural beings.

[@carolkhisa1564]

nobody thinks you are gods, they mostly believe you are descendants of the devil

[@toxic9525]

@@carolkhisa1564 they don't believe in jesus and they killed your missionary

[@GordonGarvey]

@the_Crimeboss demons are supernatural beings

[@GordonGarvey]

@@carolkhisa1564 in ww2 a pilot landed in a primitive part of Africa and those Africans thought we were God's.

[@GordonGarvey]

@the_Crimeboss I wasn't

[@mikimiyazaki]

Its awesome and absolutely amazing that theres a tribe on a small island completely secluded and cut off from the rest of the world. So cool, and even though i hate this saying but because i lack a better descriptive "my faith in humanity is restored".minus the last part as my faith in humanity has always existed so really my humanity has been preserved by the fact that the indian government made the flat out right decision to leave them alone. Honor the fact that they were there long before them which is partly why no one from outside that island is allowed on that island. Im soo happy the government made it illegal to go to the island which essentially makes bothering those magnificent ancient people illegal as well!

[@laurendelune7618]

I’d imagine you could (if you absolutely needed to for some reason) send a drone over to the island to map it or check in on the people as long as they don’t see it too much or else they’d shoot it

[@octavianova1300]

When it comes to the Sentinelese' ability to build fire, it's been suggested that they previously had, and later lost, the ability, which seems somewhat plausible, considering North Sentinel has also experienced a steep depopulation in the time since estimates on their population has been monitored.

[@Thumbsupurbum]

They've likely already been exposed to diseases from outside. Perhaps this is why they will kill on sight.

[@diddlypoop4722]

@Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer actually like 60.

[@CoolioXXX52]

Doubt it

[@octavianova1300]

@@CoolioXXX52 yeah probably because you're a racist white person who thinks they are incapable

[@carthy2024]

They said 15

[@c.r.adamson7482]

Dude apparently they wait for lightning to start a fire then they keep it lit.

[@Wrecktown7247]

I think thats just like how early humans had their fires at first. Would be crazy to see when they discover some flint on the island to make some sparks.

[@CoolioXXX52]

Doubtful

[@cheese4746]

Hey I just wanted to add, coconut people actually met them twice. The second time the warriors came into the boat.

[@soultrick7474]

interesting island, great video. music bit too loud tho

[@ashina2146]

That is one bad civilization player right there.

[@Papagiorgio153]

Lol, just keep them around for the lols

[@perrydowd9285]

I always go for the barbarian villagers. One of them go me a howitzer when all I had was cannon. That howitzer was great against that fat Austrian bitch with all those daughters. Take that Maria!

[@Zaz5y]

Random FatCat Definitely not gonna win diplomacy.

[@pretzelstick320]

Random FatCat to be fair, it was prob the worst spawn possible.

[@pretzelstick320]

Random FatCat or it’s just that one barbarian encampment that no one bothered to deal with.

[@Lucy-rz4zp]

They actually sent the US missionary back 2 times before they killed him the first time

[@rich7787]

They were gonna kill him more than once?

[@mariakelly1059]

Which for the North Sentinelese is considered a warm welcome.

[@TimStamper89]

@@rich7787 they strung their bows and he left, then went back and one shot an arrow at him, he went back a third time and got offed The idiots had chances and then he coped it because he wanted to bring them a bedtime story like a tit

[@rich7787]

@@TimStamper89, you can’t kill someone more than once. By definition, everyone who has been killed was killed for the first time. No one in history has ever been killed a second time.

[@TimStamper89]

@@rich7787 no one said he or anyone was killed twice or anyone intended to kill him once then kill him again I've no idea where your getting that conclusion beyond an inability to read the comments

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

Theres some really good documentaries on the jariwa tribe. ONE kid from that tribe was adopted years ago and now lives in modern world city. Absolutely crazy stuff since they were a primitive tribe when they adopted the child from there

[@mysteriesmadeknown2874]

Thank for letting us know that others tried to witness to them, now we know they will reject anyone that tries to witness to them.