The Little-Known History Of North Sentinel Island, Untouched By Modern Civilization

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Don't plan a visit to North Sentinel Island. The island is off limits to visitors and the inhabitants have been known to kill intruders. Source: (jonistraveling.com)

It is hard to fathom that in today's modern world—with space travel, amazing medical breakthroughs, and smartphones in every pocket—that there are still tribes of people in the remotest parts of the planet that have had little to no contact with the outside world ... and they like it like that. They work hard to maintain their ancestral way of life amid the encroachment of modernity. This is the story of one such tribe, the Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island and their overwhelming desire to be left alone that sometimes becomes violent