This moron. First he wasn’t legally allowed to go there, secondly this tribe has killed 38 others for doing the same. These people obviously want to be left the fuck alone.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=...ust=1542993593989227

Isolated Tribe Kills American With Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

Nov. 21, 2018
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Indian government regulations prohibit any interaction with the people on North Sentinel, an island in the Andaman Sea.Gautam Singh/Associated Press
NEW DELHI — John Allen Chau seemed to know that what he was about to do was extremely dangerous.

Mr. Chau, an American thought to be in his 20s, was floating in a kayak off a remote island in the Andaman Sea. He was about to set foot on one of the most sealed-off parts of India, an island inhabited by a small, enigmatic and highly isolated tribe whose members have killed outsiders for simply stepping on their shore.

Fishermen warned him not to go. Few outsiders had ever been there. And Indian government regulations clearly prohibited any interaction with people on the island, called North Sentinel.

But Mr. Chau pushed ahead, setting off in his kayak, which he had packed with a Bible. After that, it is a bit of a mystery what happened.

But the police say one thing is clear: Mr. Chau did not survive.

On Wednesday, the Indian authorities said that Mr. Chau had been shot with bows and arrows by tribesmen when he got on shore and that his body was still on the island. Fishermen who helped take Mr. Chau to North Sentinel told the police that they had seen tribesmen dragging his body on the beach.

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[Read about T.N. Pandit, an anthropologist who spent time with the Jarawa and Sentinelese tribes in the Andaman Sea.]

It was a “misplaced adventure,’’ said Dependra Pathak, the police chief in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “He certainly knew it was off limits.’’

Mr. Pathak said Mr. Chau, believed to be 26 or 27 and from Washington State, may have been trying to convert the islanders to Christianity. Right before he left in his kayak, Mr. Chau gave the fishermen a long note in case he did not come back. In it, police officials said, he had written that Jesus had bestowed him with the strength to go to the most forbidden places on Earth.

On Wednesday, in a post on Mr. Chau’s Instagram account, his family expressed deep sadness and said he was “a beloved son, brother, uncle, and best friend to us. To others he was a Christian missionary, a wilderness EMT, an international soccer coach, and a mountaineer.”

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They also seemed to hold out some hope that he had survived, saying the report of his death was unconfirmed. They also said they forgave those who might have been responsible for his death.

Family members did not respond to phone messages.

The Andaman and nearby Nicobar Islands are beautiful, palm-fringed specks ringed by coral in the Indian Ocean. The government controls access very carefully; of the more than 500 islands, many areas are off limits.

On Nov. 14, Mr. Chau hired a fishing boat in Port Blair, the main city in the Andamans, to take him to North Sentinel. He waited until darkness to set off, police officials said, so he would not be detected by the authorities.

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T. N. Pandit, an anthropologist who visited North Sentinel several times between 1967 and 1991, said the Sentinelese people — who officially number around 50 and who hunt with spears and arrows fashioned from scraps of metal that wash up on their shores — were more hostile to outsiders than other indigenous communities living in the Andamans.

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John Allen Chau, right, with Casey Prince, the founder of the nonprofit Ubuntu Football Academy in Cape Town, South Africa, where Mr. Chau was a coach.Sarah Prince/Associated Press
Once, when Mr. Pandit’s expedition offered a pig to the Sentinelese, two members of the tribe walked to the edge of the beach, “speared it” and buried it in the sand.

During another encounter, Mr. Pandit was separated from his colleagues and left alone in the water. A young tribesman on the beach pulled out a knife and “made a sign as if he was carving out my body.”

“He threatened; I understood,” Mr. Pandit said. “Contact was different with the Sentinelese,” he added, noting that the Jarawa, another tribe, “invited us to come ashore and sang songs.”

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Being left alone was very important for the Sentinelese, said Stephen Corry, the director of Survival International, a group that protects the rights of indigenous tribal peoples around the world.

“This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen,” Mr. Corry said in a statement, adding that the Indian government must protect the tribe from “further invaders.”

Gift-giving expeditions to the Sentinelese stopped in 1996. The Indian Navy now enforces a buffer zone to keep people away. In 2006, the Sentinelese killed two fishermen who had accidentally drifted on shore.

According to the fishermen who helped Mr. Chau, they motored for several hours from Port Blair to North Sentinel. Mr. Chau waited until the next morning, at daybreak, to try to get ashore.

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He put his kayak in the water less than half a mile out and paddled toward the island.

The fishermen said that tribesmen had shot arrows at him and that he had retreated. He apparently tried several more times to reach the island over the next two days, the police say, offering gifts such as a small soccer ball, fishing line and scissors. But on the morning of Nov. 17, the fishermen said they saw the islanders with his body.

The seven people who helped Mr. Chau reach the island have been arrested and charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder and with violating rules protecting aboriginal tribes.

In the Instagram post, the family asked for the release of the seven and said he had “ventured out on his own free will.”

Another case has been registered against “unknown persons” for killing Mr. Chau. But in the past, the authorities have said that it is virtually impossible to prosecute members of the protected tribes because of the area’s inaccessibility and the Indian government’s decision not to interfere in their lives.

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In a blog post from several years ago, Mr. Chau said he had coached soccer, worked for AmeriCorps and that he was “an explorer at heart.” The Indian police said he had visited the Andamans at least three times.

When asked what was the top of his must-do list, Mr. Chau had written on the blog: “Going back to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India is on the top — there’s so much to see and do there!”

Follow Jeffrey Gettleman, Hari Kumar and Kai Schultz on Twitter: @gettleman, @HariNYT and @Kai_Schultz.

Ayesha Venkataraman contributed reporting. Kirk Johnson contributed reporting from Seattle and Megan Specia from New York.

Hello McFly?

The tribe on the remote island has been isolated for so many centuries there’s a good chance physical contact with (disease vector) outsiders would wipe them out.

Thinking that about 100 years ago the British invaded Sentinel and killed about 40% of them.
Drove the population away from their village.
Took some natives to show them the modern way and sent them back to Sentinel to show the remaining population.

Guessing they are still pissed of about that.

Y'know the last thing that went through his head as he was approaching the natives?
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An arrow.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com...ckefeller-180949813/

Rich people exploring foreign culture. Interesting story if you are not familiar with the disapperance.

sounds like a good place for a real reality tv show.

"Misplaced adventure" That is a great comment!
Leave us go amongst the heathens....
If you want to help people (or convert them), there are lots of deserving folks right here in the USA.

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Originally posted by gw3971:
sounds like a good place for a real reality tv show.

Hey, I think we found the next place for a season of "Survivor".........and the only challenge is actually surviving, no stupid challenges, no voting.

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But the police say one thing is clear: Mr. Chau did not survive.

Now that's some quality reporting.

This first thing that popped into my mind when I read this was an old movie. Very good movie with one disturbing scene (Kathy Bates topless)

Must have been a tip of the spear F-22 pilot.

Another Portland dumbass.

My take on this is apparently different from ohter posts.

I don't think he was all that crazy if one believes the Bible.
He lived it by going there.

So he died, so what.
If he died in service to the Lord, he secured his spot in the afterlife doing the Lord's work.

I don't think most of us including me have the ability to put in all on the line for Christ.

He did.

^^^ spot on LBJ. No different than missionary’s dying in China spreading the gospel.

This is understandable given their history with outsiders. He took his chances and I hope the kill was fast and he did not suffer.

The problem I have is the tribe killing off people that end up there by accident. Those fishermen in 2006 didn't even intend to be there and they got whacked right away.

Interesting case certainly.
He knew what he was getting into and can’t fault him if that is where he was lead. He knew the consequences.
Hopefully they just leave his body and don’t risk anyone to retrieve it.

Might as well say "he died doing what he loved".

I subscribe to the theory that what he wanted to do was less important than what he wanted

no way do I want someone breaking into my home at 2AM to try to convert me

I empathize with the tribe - I think they've made it quite plain - 'Leave Us Alone'