Events
In 1991, the first instance
of friendly close contact was
reported when the Sentinelese
approached a dinghy carrying
various gifts without any weapons
and collected them.
In the early 1990s, the
Sentinelese began allowing
boats to approach the shoreIn 1996, the Indian
government ended the
contact expeditions after
a series of hostile encounters
resulting in several deathsOn 27 January 2006, Indian
fishermen Sunder Raj (48)
and Pandit Tiwari (52),
who had been attempting to
illegally harvest crabs off
North Sentinel Island,
drifted towards the island after
their boat's makeshift anchor failed
during the night. They did not
respond to warning
calls from passing fishermen,
and the boat drifted into the
shallows near the island, where
a group of Sentinelese
warriors attacked
the boat and killed the fishermen with axes.In November 2018, John
Allen Chau, a 26-year-old
American missionary trained
and sent by Missouri-based
All Nations, travelled illegally to
North Sentinel Island, with the help
of local fishermen, intending
to make contact with and
live among the Sentinelese.in 1967, a group of 20 people led by T. N. Pandit,
an anthropologist working for the
Anthropological Survey
of India, travelled to North
Sentinel Island to explore the island and
attempt to befriend the Sentinelese.in 1974 aluminum cookware left by the
National Geographic Society in 1974
is one of the few documented cases
of their accepting a gift from
outsiders. a National Geographic
film crew went to the island with a team of
anthropologists to film a documentaryIn August 1981, the cargo ship
Primrose ran aground in rough seas
just off North Sentinel Island,
stranding a small crew. After a few
days, a reported 50 islanders
appeared, threatening the crew.In the mid-1990s, the Indian
government set up a state
welfare agency to look after
the island's tribal groups and
began a series of contact expeditionsEvent progress
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