And like the pacified tribes of South America, indigenous peoples of the Andamans soon succumbed to contagious diseases and wholesale social disintegration in the wake of contact.

A YouTube influencer visiting a remote Indian island, where he allegedly tried to make illegal contact with indigenous people, has been arrested, according to global reports.

“Recognising and respecting the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as citizens of India is about far more than just adding them to the voter register,” Ms Grig ...

Here are 7 indigenous groups yet untouched by modern world 7 Indigenous groups yet untouched by the modern population The Sentinelese, residing in the Andaman Islands, remain one of the last ...

But other isolated communities who moved to the islands from South East Asia centuries ago fared far worse than the indigenous peoples, ... Anthropologists say folklore helped to save the ancient ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, whose father is from Ukraine, set foot on North Sentinel Island, a part of India’s Andaman Islands, in an attempt to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese ...

Overhead view of North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation.

In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was reportedly killed by tribespeople after he arrived on North Sentinel Island, hoping to convert the local people to Christianity.Polyakov is ...

Polyakov planned his trip well in advance, visiting the Andaman islands twice before traveling to North Sentinel on his third visit, allegedly setting off from a beach about 25 miles away in South ...

“Recognising and respecting the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as citizens of India is about far more than just adding them to the voter register,” Ms Grig ...

Polyakov planned his trip well in advance, visiting the Andaman islands twice before traveling to North Sentinel on his third visit, allegedly setting off from a beach about 25 miles away in South ...

In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was reportedly killed by tribespeople after he arrived on North Sentinel Island, hoping to convert the local people to Christianity.Polyakov is ...