These Original Africans Are Really About That Life - Uncontacted Tribe
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From a cracked article on Isolated Groups
#6. The Sentinelese
Via Ferrebeekeeper
The Sentinelese tribe make their home on North Sentinel Island, India. They're named after the island they live on, because nobody actually knows what they call themselves. In fact, generally speaking, nobody knows much of anything about them. After they survived the 2004 tsunami that swept right over their island (another thing we don't know: how the hell they managed to do that), we sent a few helicopters over the island to photograph them and make sure they were still around.
Via Survivalinternational.org
"That's good. They can probably zoom in later with computers."
How Did They Avoid the Modern World for So Long?
Easy. Here are the shots from those helicopters:
Via Survivalinternational.org
The whole tribe is set on Aggro Mode.
In 2006, two fishermen whose boat drifted into the shallows near the island were killed by the Sentinelese and then buried in shallow graves. Helicopters flying overhead located their burial sites, but were unable to land because (you guessed it) the locals immediately started shooting arrows at them. Despite the fact that they have basically no idea what a helicopter is, aside from a giant metal bird that occasionally screams through the air to try (and fail) to avenge the deaths of the last invaders.
And it worked: The modern world just up and backed the hell down. Local policemen refused to go collect the bodies, claiming that if they went in they would be "killed by poison darts and arrows smeared with blood" (which we admit is a pretty good excuse).
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_1997...-that-civilization-existed.html#ixzz2mXPiiMRM
#6. The Sentinelese
The Sentinelese tribe make their home on North Sentinel Island, India. They're named after the island they live on, because nobody actually knows what they call themselves. In fact, generally speaking, nobody knows much of anything about them. After they survived the 2004 tsunami that swept right over their island (another thing we don't know: how the hell they managed to do that), we sent a few helicopters over the island to photograph them and make sure they were still around.
"That's good. They can probably zoom in later with computers."
How Did They Avoid the Modern World for So Long?
Easy. Here are the shots from those helicopters:
The whole tribe is set on Aggro Mode.
In 2006, two fishermen whose boat drifted into the shallows near the island were killed by the Sentinelese and then buried in shallow graves. Helicopters flying overhead located their burial sites, but were unable to land because (you guessed it) the locals immediately started shooting arrows at them. Despite the fact that they have basically no idea what a helicopter is, aside from a giant metal bird that occasionally screams through the air to try (and fail) to avenge the deaths of the last invaders.
And it worked: The modern world just up and backed the hell down. Local policemen refused to go collect the bodies, claiming that if they went in they would be "killed by poison darts and arrows smeared with blood" (which we admit is a pretty good excuse).
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_1997...-that-civilization-existed.html#ixzz2mXPiiMRM
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Damn they like the military base from the GTA 3 trilogy
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The only "bout that life" because they are ignorant to consequences
let them try that fukk shyt with seal team 6
let them try that fukk shyt with seal team 6
BelowTheMasonDixon
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The Sentinelese and other indigenous Andamanese peoples are frequently described as negritos, a term which has been applied to various widely separated peoples in Southeast Asia, such as the Semang of the Malay archipelago and the Aeta of the Philippines, as well as to other peoples as far afield as Australia (notably former populations of Tasmania). The defining characteristics of these "negrito" peoples (who are not a monophyletic group) include a comparatively short stature, dark skin and "peppercorn" hair, qualities also found commonly across the continent of Africa. No close contacts have been established, but the author Heinrich Harrer described one man as being 1.6 m (5' 4") tall and apparently left handed.
Every human being on earth is a "direct descendant of the the first human population to emerge from Africa"..right? I don't understand that statement.
And Indians are plenty dark skinned themselves so why would why classify this island, that is off the coast of India and controlled by India as African? Just cuz of the texture of their hair?
Or is it cuz they use spears and wear loincloths....
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BelowTheMasonDixon
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Them nikkas ain't Asian.
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http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island/#!oTLOd
"These strangers, like the British before them, came bearing gifts -usually bananas and coconuts, which do not grow on the islands, and sometimes other gifts, including bead necklaces, rubber balls, plastic buckets, and pots and pans. Once the visitors approached as closely as they felt was safe, they would toss the items overboard to wash upon the beach. Or, if the party were large enough to frighten the Sentinelese into retreating into the jungle, it might even land on the beach, but only long enough to drop off the gifts and beat it out of there before the Sentinelese attacked. When a National Geographic film crew lingered too long during one such visit in 1975, a Sentinelese warrior with a bow and arrow shot the director in the thigh, and then stood there on the beach laughing at his accomplishment."
Violence isn't funny in general but in this case
"These strangers, like the British before them, came bearing gifts -usually bananas and coconuts, which do not grow on the islands, and sometimes other gifts, including bead necklaces, rubber balls, plastic buckets, and pots and pans. Once the visitors approached as closely as they felt was safe, they would toss the items overboard to wash upon the beach. Or, if the party were large enough to frighten the Sentinelese into retreating into the jungle, it might even land on the beach, but only long enough to drop off the gifts and beat it out of there before the Sentinelese attacked. When a National Geographic film crew lingered too long during one such visit in 1975, a Sentinelese warrior with a bow and arrow shot the director in the thigh, and then stood there on the beach laughing at his accomplishment."
Violence isn't funny in general but in this case
