The Indian government has distributed ... mega project on the Shompen’s island, which experts have warned will lead to the genocide of the tribe,” she said. Last year in February, a letter ...

Shinnecock Nation leaders request court approval to resume limited construction at travel plaza, citing public safety risks.

A decade later, in 1991, an Indian anthropologist named Madhumala Chattopadhyay managed brief, friendly contact with the inhabitants on a few trips to the island. But for the sake of protecting ...

The Anthropological Survey of India published a research journal, highlighting many unknown facts about the alleged killing of an American tourist by a remote tribe of North Sentinel Island in ...

This small island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is surrounded by clear blue waters, yet it remains one of the ...

Off-limits to visitors since 1956, this remote island in the Indian Ocean is far from abandoned—it's actually home to an indigenous tribe. North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal and ...

To safeguard both the Sentinelese and visitors, Indian authorities enforce a strict 5-nautical-mile exclusion zone around the island, with trespassers facing legal consequences. The tribe’s ...

are nomadic seafaring people who traditionally live on boats and stilt houses in the waters around giant island Malaysian Borneo, Sabah, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The tribe historically ...