Sentinel and Jarawa Tribes: Interesting facts of special tribes of Andaman
Uttarakhand Hindi News
The Sentinel tribe has been isolated from the world for thousands of years. It is believed that they are staying away from the world because they want to stay away from the diseases of common people. The incident of the killing of an American tourist by the Sentinel tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is in the news nowadays. It is being told in media reports that American tourist John Allen Chow wanted to propagate Christianity on Sentinel Island but he was attacked and killed by hunters of Sentinel tribe. Actually, the Sentinel tribe has been isolated from the world for thousands of years. It is believed that they are staying away from the world because they want to stay away from the diseases of common people. India's anthropologist Triloknath Pandit is the only person who was successful in establishing contact with this tribe. He made many trips to the island between the years 1966 and 1991. Uttarakhand Hindi News
John Allen Chow Murder Events After the assassination of US citizen John Allen, the fishermen told police that they were trying to get to the island of Sentinelese on 14 November 2018, but were unsuccessful. Two days after the first attempt was unsuccessful, John arrived on the island again on 16 November with full preparations, during which he left his boat midway and entered the island with a few more luggage with tents. Local fishermen told the media that as John stepped into the island, the tribals of the Sentinel community attacked him with arrows. After John's assassination, the people of the Sentinel tribe community dragged his body to the beach and dragged him to the beach and buried him in the sand. Seeing this incident, the fishermen fled fearfully from there.
Interesting information about the Sentinel tribe • They have neither eaten salt nor tasted sugar yet. It is said that these people do not even know how to light a fire. • People of Sentinel tribe do not cultivate nor raise animals. They consume fruits, honey, tuber, pig, turtle, fish.
According to Triloknath Pandit, an Indian anthropologist who has made contact with this tribe, his group has no head but honors are given to those who make arrows, spears, baskets, huts etc. Uttarakhand Hindi News • The tribes of these islands do not marry in close relationship. According to the information, the children of this tribe start to stand on their feet, from that time they start training them to make arrows so that they grow up to become skilled and get respect. There are also various practices of Sentinel tribe in which some are quite interesting. For example, if someone dies in a hut in these tribes, then no one lives in that hut. • When sick, only herbs and prayers are used. These tribes also believe in ghosts. They have good and evil ghosts in their eyes and they worship them as well.
Interesting information about the Jarawa tribe
• Similarly, the tribals of the 'Jarawa tribe' live in the South and Central islands in the Andaman Islands. Jarawa men and women are usually naked. They wear some jewelery, leaves on the lower body or small pieces of cloth. • Tribals of Jarawa tribe are dark black in color and small in stature. If the color of the child is a little blond, then he believes that his father belongs to another community, and kills the child. For which there is no punishment in the community. Police is ordered not to interfere in this. Uttarakhand Hindi News • People of Jarawa tribe hunt animals with arrow bow and spears and accept them as food. It is said that these people also consider honey as a favorite food. Their population has been seen to decrease every year, according to an estimate, their population is currently between 250 and 400 . • In the year 1956, five tribes of Andaman and Nicobar including Jarawa were given the status of native tribes including the Great (great) Andamanese, Ongae and Sentinalese.