The Sentinelese inhabit North Sentinel Island, a Manhattan-sized territory protected by Indian law. This protection preserves their way of life and shields them from diseases to which they have no ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Open Space Institute (OSI) and Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina have announced the acquisition of the 1,382-acre Camp Island property near North Carolina’s southeastern ...

And it's unlikely to be the last major deal struck by an Indian tribe. Less than a generation ago, the Seminole tribe of Florida were living a precarious life of poverty in the Everglade swamps.

The Vanuatu government cancelled the passport issued to Indian Premier League (IPL) founder Lalit Modi, saying that escaping extradition was not a legitimate reason for citizenship in the island ...