The inhabitants of this island will not let anyone on their land for thousands of years

Residents of North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean since time immemorial isolated from the outside world: they meet all the arrows, who are trying to get to the island, and live as if in the court of the Stone Age. Islanders protect their own culture, which is bound to be destroyed, is Aboriginal Northern Sentinel join the benefits of civilization.









In the XIX century on the rocks several times broke ships. Crews tried to land, but the natives chased them with arrows. One day in 1897, the island approached the police chasing after an escaped convict. Police found him in the woods with his throat cut and bristling with arrows and rushed to get out.









North Sentinel Island (still referred to as the North All) - a small, 72 square meters. km, and lives there for over 400 people. In August 1981 stranded near its shores villages ship "Primrose". The natives were very aggressive, throwing people into spears and shooting arrows. Fortunately, the ship was too far from the shore, and no one was hurt. The crew was evacuated by helicopter, but "Primrose" and stood abandoned.









Several times, scientists have tried to enter into contact with the islanders: brought gifts, struggling smiled and bowed in greeting. But the natives displayed a mere contemptuous indifference or threatened with spears.









In 1991, an Indian scientist has managed to get the attention suddenly adamant natives. "Dear," the heart turned ... red plastic buckets. For several years, the islanders picked up a bucket left on the shore, but refused to talk and close to the scientist did not fit. From their shouts anthropologists realized that sentineles speak the language, did not like the other Andaman and concluded that they live in isolation from time immemorial.









And then it stopped: sentineles started shooting at helicopters and ships from the bows. In 2006, a tragedy occurred: they killed two unfortunate fishermen whose boat drifted to the island weather.

Officially, the island is controlled by India, but the government has said it will not intervene in the life of the islanders: God is with them, let them live as they want. They even protect and tourists are not allowed to go ashore. Firstly, it is dangerous, and secondly - the natives have no immunity against our diseases and can kill a simple runny nose.









Although the natives simply not the least bit interested in the outside world, they do not cease to haunt our imagination. How do they live there in their tiny universe, and what they think about the world? About them wrote in his blog Boris Akunin, they have their own Facebook page and a lot of sites about which they are unaware. If they had told someone, they would probably be asked: uh-uh, what is all this?









Time stood still there as if in some far-distant past, when people believed that the wood and stone gods live. How is it - live as if no one ever invented the atomic bomb and the internet?

According to the materials: Rus.livejournal

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