Almost nine months after American national John Allen Chau was allegedly killed by the Sentinelese on the North Sentinel Island of Andaman and Nicobar islands, a recent publication by the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) throws more light on the incident. He was killed on the island after he illegally travelled to the North Sentinel island with the help of local fishermen in the hopes of making contact with the Sentinelese.
About:
The Sentinelese is a negrito tribe who live on the North Sentinel Island of the Andamans.
Demography and Lifestyle:
to various estimates, the Sentinelese presence on the islands varies from 2,000 years to 30,000 years ago.
Census 2001 counted 39 inhabitants.
The Sentinelese are hunter-gatherers, likely using bows and arrows to hunt and more rudimentary methods to catch local seafood.
It is known that the Sentinelese speak their own language, the Sentinelese language.
Contacts with other people: The Sentinelese have been fiercely hostile to outside contact. They have been mostly left alone even from colonial times, unlike other tribes such as the Onges, Jarawas and Great Andamanese, because the land they occupy has little commercial attraction.
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