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Uncontacted peoples

American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers

Search for slain American missionary could ‘wipe out’ Sentinalese

Belief

The Sentinelese, generally considered the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world, have violently resisted any contact with outsiders. The Indian government has for years placed the island off-limits to visitors to protect the tribe.

A man stands outside and aims his bow and arrow toward a helicopter.

American missionary killed after multiple attempts to contact isolated Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman Islands

Conflict

H1N1 endangers Indians in the Amazon

Health & Medicine

The Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes

Brazil: Forests Under Fire

Tsunami Survival: The Isolated Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Host Steve Curwood talks with Sophie Grig of Survival International, a worldwide organization supporting tribal peoples. She’s been tracking information on the effect of the tsunami on the isolated tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Some of these tribes are hunter-gatherers who came to the islands from Africa 60,000 years ago. It’s believed that […]