Re:American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island
by nprz on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:21PM
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Sad and interesting how that single event from 140 years ago still shapes the tribes beliefs.
Re:American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island
by jadell on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:41PM
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Based on reports from that era, the tribe was highly secretive and suspicious of outsiders long before this event happened. The first time a Westerner recorded encountering the island, they mentioned seeing signs of recent habitation, but finding no inhabitants, as if they had disappeared into the forest. Likely, they just didn't want to interact with strange intruders in their territory.
Re:American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island
by LyndsySimon on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:41PM
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The US Civil War still has a very large impact on the culture of the South.
Their first major contact with the outside world was in 1880, when a British colonial administrator kidnapped six of the Sentinelese, two of whom died from disease before they could be returned - and who knows what diseases the other four brought back with them when the British dumped them back on the island.