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One one hand: Most of the Australian aborigine people had walked out of the desert by the 1960's, but in 1984 a family of 9 that had lived in the desert, final

• sampo 13y ago
  On the other hand: The Sentinelese people (of the article) are not the only indigenous people around there, they are just on the most distant island. On nearby larger islands there live e.g. the Jarawa [1] and Onge [2] people and some others [3]. The Jawara inhabit jungle areas of a larger island, that has also for already very long time been settled by Indian farmers. The Jarawa used to stay in the jungle, and there were occasional violent encounter and conflicts. But in 1997 the Jarawa started to make peaceful visits to nearby villages, wanting food and gifts. The farmers see the Jarawa as a nuisance. They don't want to escalate violence, but they also don't want the Jarawa to learn that they could walk in people's homes and steal whatever they want. Apparently [4,5] the Jarawa and Onge languages are not very well studied, either. So, whatever anthropological, cultural and humanitarian interest anyone might have toward the un-contacted people on the North Sentinel island, they could first direct their interest and charity toward these other nearby tribes who have already had some contact with civilization for last decades or centuries, but are apparently not faring very well at the moment. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_people_%28Andaman_Islands%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_people_%28Andaman_Island... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_people [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands#Indigenous_Andamanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands#Indigenous_Anda... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_language_%28Andaman_Islands%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_language_%28Andaman_Isla... [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_language