Yum yum yum!
Eatem allll up!
Urrrp!

There was also a Rockefeller heir who met a similar fate. He was an anthropologist not a missionary.

But he also...found out.

They have made their dislike of outsiders well known.
I believe a ship once came to grief on the reef in bad weather and the crew were considering taking to the ocean in the life rafts rather than waiting on the boat as they were concerned when the tide rose the islanders would simply kill them.
I believe the in the early days of being invaded by anglo saxons they saw whole islands die after coming into contact with the white people and decided not to risk it.
One lot of invaders thought to make friends with them and unloaded some dead pigs ready to eat.

The islanders buried the pigs, with as little contact as possible.

I believe that originally they traded and intermarried between islands but now it is only this island that has not been infected by white people. (I say that as a white person living in a country that my ancestors invaded I can not change the past but I can acknowledge it)

I remember this and remember cheering for the Sentinelese! Like many of the (sadly vanishing) tribes in the Amazon...these people take their freedoms seriously! Only way to make this story more fun would be if they ATE him!

Ignorance is dangerous. In many ways.

That’s called “take out” in those parts!!!?

I read about this when it happened several years ago. I can’t read this article because I have to pay. Probably nothing new. I hate that he lost his life, but if he believed an imaginary entity would save him then I don’t have much sympathy.

Of course it was dog’s(god’s) will, he was sacrificed for his belief in his dog!!!

I've heard about the island, mostly due to idiot missionaries who think god will protect them. The tribe is isolated and the Indian government has made it illegal to visit the island, because the tribe kills anyone who tries to visit.

I would not doubt that the tribe might have developed their attitudes as a result of missionaries, either Christian, Muslim or both in earlier centuries.

Unfortunately, that tribe, while it is protected by law, (they weren't hassled for killing the guy snd the fishermen who took him there were jailed) don't have a large enough population to survive more than a couple/few generations.