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The North Sentinel Island Iceberg | PART 1
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- Published on Mar 7, 2026
- I'm sorry for being away for so long - I hope you enjoy my latest obsession - North Sentinel Island
I'll probably release the bibliography on my Patreon (for free of course), the link is below.
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Hey guys, I just added my bibliography to my Patreon - it's free for anyone to look through.
www.patreon.com/posts/bibliography-for-149226976
How many months before part two? 6? 9? I hate being early.
Honestly, people should just make the iceberg all together. I'll never see the rest.
It's funny how u can excuse the actions of the natives because they are tribal and ignorant, and u don't understand their culture, but u harshly judge the British behavior, while not understanding their culture. The andamanese could be extreme racists. U wouldn't know. How can u accurately judge one groups actions over another when u are so are so far removed from each culture. U assume u know best and vie to instill ur ways on others. The epitome of racist. Thinking u know what others are thinking and assuming u know best. Pathetic! Unintelligent fool!
Why don't u shame the tribal people for wearing the skulls of their deceased relatives? Sounds pretty unsanitary, vile, creepy, and macabre practice to me. But going and investing is so wrong. Delusional leftist ideologies that will twist up and destroy the world. It's only gotten worse during the rise of leftist ideals.
Make part two habibi
Man goes to "they will kill you island," gets killed
So delusional that he cant understand why though! Why dont they love me Jesus! I must go back lol
he might be a selfish fool to us, but for just a moment he was the man with the strongest faith...goes to show powerful the influence of religion is
But seriously, though, that guy had so many opportunities to survive, and he still blew it, lol. He was acting way too much like the 'main character,' even when the universe was practically handing him an escape route from that 'mess around and find out' situation.
@isaacleibniz2437 strong delusion more like
lmao
"The last uncontacted tribe" has been repeatedly contacted.
If I’m not wrong it kinda just means uncontacted as in there have been no successful contacts with the people they understood
he addresses this turn of phrase literally in the first minute of the video?
Showing up once every hundred years with some coconuts doesn’t constitute contact in the anthropological sense. They have no idea the outside world exists.
@Restrodsworththey probably know more about the outside world than we know fully about them. They will have seen that ships develop, that we can beverages, planes begin to appear in the sky, they see and interact with fishing vessels. We have seen from other people's with limited contact to the global world that they know an awful lot about us and our world while we barely understand there's
they arent even the last uncontacted tribe, theres plenty in the Amazon and Papua new guinea
I am also upset when people show up unannounced to my home.
And without an offering of iron? Wtf
my government feeds them
Hate when that happens!
When I'm in the shower I'm afraid to wash my hair, the doorbell might ring, and Jehovah's Witness standing there!
People think I'm crazy, just a little touched, because maybe showers remind me of the Watch Tower too much?
But you don't kill them.
@Supernimo144 The North Sentinelese likely have a history of the British kidnapping them during colonial times so that might be reason for the hostility
learning xhosa in order to communicate with the sentinelese has to be one of the most ridiculously ignorant linguistic takes I have ever heard of
bro wanted to spread christianity to blacks, he was obviously delulu
On top of not learning any Hindi ensuring that he won't be able to communicate with anyone local to GET him to the island. And this guy was going to College! He took linguistics!!
@Lamentations521I don't think people there would speak Hindi
@SufiyanMandiyeah I dont really know India has like hundreds of languages so I was just rolling with Hindi
@SufiyanMandiAndaman has a mix of various parts from south to north everyone is found there and Hindi is common over there also it being a Union territory makes Hindi more common
The 'uncontacted' island has received more contact than me in any given saturday night
Let me contact you on this Wednesday night ... ❤And let's leave them alone. If we ever destroy ourselves they are somehow more prepared ... 🤣
I hate this modern mentality where 1 person would look at another person's problem and act as if it's their problem as well.
Ok loser
@theotv....
The Sentilanese don't have a "problem".
Clearly, they live more authentic lives than any of us here could ever hope for.
Let's leave them alone.
@tnteachertim Yes but clearly the people who went there (Chau for example) did not share your views, hence what Theo said.
Somewhere in the galaxy there is an “earth iceberg” about the uncontacted species of humanity from the galactic community.
"Chris Chan" should have an entry on that 'berg
Can Confirm
@machomanalexyt5736 Dr Disrespect, EDP445, Deniel Larson, Ted Kaczynski, etc. The "iceberg" is gonna turn into the Mariana trench if we gonna list people like that.
@theotv5522chris chan is THE lolcow. Those people pale in comparison to our lord and savior sonichu.
😂😂 I wouldn't doubt it
Something so funny (and emblematic of JAC’s mindset) is that he learnt Xhosa but didn’t think to try and learn any Hindi so he spoke a language from thousands of miles away but couldn’t communicate with his guides.
Just can't be a Christian , got to be "special" "chosen by god" and so on.
Happens in non religious people plenty too but for every Joseph Smith or L Ron Hubbard you have a dozen cannibal happy meals throughout history.
@MarkJacobson-c3v Its so surreal they interpret their internal dialogue as god's will. holy shmoly
It does give a lot of insight into his personality
Doesn't justify his death
@thedarkmasterthedarkmasterit helps explain why it happened though, he was a fool
Man this guy had a terminal case of main character syndrome
Least self centred american
If you don’t sympathize with him, then you’re not a real human being
@machinegoat2280 expand on this
Delusions of grandeur...common in evangelical Christians.
@machinegoat2280 "the devils last stronghold" is immediately problematic and kind of shows hes going in with the wrong mindset, and i didnt even bring up how he thought he was chosen by God for this.
It is so weird that so many people think of the sentinalese as a challenge and not people
I think of them as little fucking assholes.
We should test weapons on them - see how they like it.
They're barely people, they're barely evolved cave men and are only alive because a government protects them. Give me 100 men with swords and I can take them over and subjegate them - Christopher Columbus
Look up “the Indian problem” as a Canadian I’m not surprised
it's sad, but not that weird, if you think about the roots of our own society. the brainworms of imperialism have wriggled their way into so many facets of our social consciousness.
@GehennaGirls fr, vae victis morality is gonna fuck alot of ppls brains up
"why did a little boy shoot at me!? will this be the last sunset that i'll see?"
i find it amazing that a man cannot take a clear hint that he isn't wanted and telling him to leave, like being literally shot at
Religious brainwashing
It’s typical of the invaders
To these crazies it's just a test of their faith and they're so fanatic to be the one to gain converts, like god is up there keeping score and that's better than helping the homeless or something.
Religious delusions
Bro wanted to be their Jesus
Hey guys I'm gonna go to "get your ass killed" island and be best friends with everybody there! I'll be the one person who didn't get killed because they'll like me specifically!
Waking up at North Sentinel after slamming palm wine to the dome has got to be one of the worst hangover experiences ever.
"Who's your dealer, because I want some"
Nothing like an arrow in the skull to relieve a bit of that throbbing headache. 🤓
Better than not waking up 😭
@malcolmsabree8044The Sentinelese are so smart they've diagnosed them on the spot and applied trepanning, how wholesome!
The confusing thing about Chow is that North Sentinel Island has less people than the elementary school I went to. He calls it the "devil's last stronghold" however there are many, MANY other remote areas of the world with much larger populations where people haven't heard of Christianity but aren't so cut off from the world they don't have to worry about catching deadly diseases from outsiders. He just decided to bother the Sentinels for no reason. I'm gonna be honest it just sounds like he was mentally ill.
He could have just gone to skid row or some other really gnarly place that he would have done better no doubt
ego. he wanted to be the one to "claim" it for god
@RachelAmmons it wasnt ego. If it were ego he wouldnt have returned after having arrows shot at him. He was an evangelist, who believe the greatest sin is not doing everything in your power to spread the word of God. He died thinking exactly that.
@JayJay-z4z2pthose people already know jesus exists. A missionary would be more concerned about the souls of those who had not heard of Jesus Christ
@grizzlyblackpowder1960people in skid row which is in the USA likely have, however out of the 8 billion people on earth - which the north sentinels are only around 100 of, as small as the number of likes as my comment, you could potentially convert much more people with a much much higher success rate in rural villages in say china, india or the middle east or on other accessible islands.
Him learning xhosa to speak with them is so wild when he knew there are actual contacted islands near it with their own languages that are more likely to be similar but sure these people just happened to coincidentally speak just like a language a whole continent away
me when i learn chinese to speak to hungarians since they both have roots in asia
He probably only saw black skin and assumed they are African. Dude didn't seem to be all there so it makes sense
A language only 50,000 years away.
He was a missionary nobody said he was smart
"They're black, so they must be African slaves who ended on these islands"
that Chau guy threw a shovel/adze in their direction as a “gift”… did dude not realize how aggressive that might look to them? throwing a tool at them? 🤦
He just doesn't think
Not anymore, he doesn't @devoutpinkgirl
Tbf, it depends how he threw it. I know the video uses the word "throw," but he also maybe could've just passed it or lobbed it in their direction and not literally threw it. Either way, still not the best look.
No social media, no brainrot, no slop, no screen addiction, just pure bow n arrow vibe
also no whiskey and blackjack :((((
I think it's cool their arrows lack fletchings, this requires higher poundage bows and top heavy arrows
just guys living in the moment
Ithe sentinel people is the closest thing similar to na'vi
Prim-locked but locked in.
worst part about the iceberg is the fact we gotta wait 6 months for the next part
Those sentinels sound like nice people for putting up with John’s shit 3 times.
I can't help but wonder how many of these pro murderous Savages comments are pro open borders outside of these comments 😂
Fr. Blacks in the US don’t even give you the first time before they savagely kill you.
@Redslayer86 It was 100% not murder.
@Redslayer86This comments actually made me create certain admiration for King Leopold II of Belgium maybe he was not wrong
@waltdoesntexist5368 do you realize the irony of your statement? Youre implying that killing people is okay if theyre savages, but the mere act of mass killing thousands of people is savage in itself. Leopald was a savage, who killed innocent people
amish people wish they were this cool
You didn't mention when they were tossing coconuts towards them as gifts one of them accidentally hit one of the Sentinelese in the head. Luckly it was just shrugged off by them as a mistake and not some sign of hostility.
I saw that, it was hilarious. The kid got ko'd.
Fortunately, body language probably told enough and they didn't care enough to get mad. They just wantted their gifts and then for the outsiders to leave.
Oh, how impressive, they chose not to murder on sight that one time.
@noxplay4906 this was a stupid comment
Why are you people so hellbent on defending unbridled savages?
Jesus advised walking on if a stranger didnt want to hear his word. It sounds as though Chow was either extremely arrogant or extremely unwell. RIP
Arrogant. EXTREMELY arrogant.
Extremely arrogant, selfish, and blinded by western bias. I only feel bad for his family tbh.
To add: You don't just call a place "The last bastion of Satan." without being an absolute fruitcake.
@caseco4979 He was Asian.
@IntergerlacticThrill He's wasian but anyway asian americans exist and they can have western biases too if they grew up in the west lmao.
My hypothesis on why they are now hostile to outsiders is that previous friendly contacts gave them diseases that they weren't immune to and is seen as a bad omen when their people got sick and died. Honestly people should just leave them alone at this point, no matter how good your intentions are from your point of view.
That seems like a very plausible theory
You don't need even an explanation. Hostility between total strangers is the default among small tribes
(Looking at the settling of the Americas, Australia, colonization of Africa and Asia)
Why would these people not want the modern world brought to their land? They must be dumb savages
Can’t the government give them immunisation?
@blugaledoh2669your blind trust in the governments of the world disturbs me deeply
Him learning Xhosa (a southern African language) is also indicative of the kind of people we are dealing with here.
Yep, that's a huge red flag.
"They're black! Of course they speak an African language! Everyone knows only whites have a plethora of different languages, duh!"
As a South African, it’s insulting
His whole mission there was based on his stupidity and ignorance, he literally attempted a suicide
@alper_ssagreed. The "Devils last stronghold" is BS. As a Christian, it sounds like he was drawn towards the glory the devil had deceived him into believing. There is no rational christian glory on that island what so ever.
>Says he'll keep it quick with cho.
>Section lasts 20 minutes
well considering the nat geo episode is 1hr45.... i'd say yeah he kept it pretty quick 😭
I just wanna know what Chau was thinking learing Xhosa, like his thought process specifically. He plans to travel to an island whose closest relatives live on nearby islands with actual known languages, and those islands are near a place that Speaks Hindu. So chau decided to learn a language from a completly different part of the world, that has no connection whatsoever to where he plans to travel???
Its a miracle he even managed to make it to the island, cause buddy wasnt the sharpest tool in the shed
Just for future reference btw the language is hindi, hindu is a religious/cultural identity not a language, also the island is nearer to south india where dravidian languages (tamil, telugu, malayalam, etc) are spoken and hindi is significantly less common 🤎
@devinasukumaran what can i say, autocorrect does me dirty my guy
@beeemoji951no worries lol it's a common mistake for humans and for autocorrect
We’ll never know. Probably something like: “They are black too, of course they’ll understand!”
@AntonNidhoggrhonestly, that was my first thought. He saw pictures of them and was like "oh! They're black! I gotta learn one of the thousands of languages in Africa!! This'll totally work"
Before i even watch this video, i just want to say that the only reason this tribe was left alone and alive is because there is zero profitable resources on the island itself, otherwise the tribe would have been wiped out long ago. Of course that can change at a seconds notice.
Yup, if the locate some oil or lithium there, things will change fast.
@julius43461 not so easily . These uncontacted tribes are protected by Indian Law and constitution no matter how much resources are over there
@nishantkumarjha3505 And if India decides to develop the islands?
@nishantkumarjha3505you should look into Indian genocidal campaigns going on right now against tribal groups on the mainland of India.
Yeah so? If they have some cool shit over there then it needs to be recovered. They can go live on some other dumb island and YOU can pay for it. I want the resources for the advancement of mankind. We going to the stars baybeeeeee!
Looks like a good place to build a walmart, an island-sized parking lot, a mcdonalds, and a gas station
don't forget about a resort and a casino 🥰
To accommodate the so called AI demand, might as well throw in a AI Data center
Nuclear power plant and a Starbucks 😌
polynesia style
We've got nukes, don't mess with us
I really hate people who try to bother these guys. They've decided their way. The only people who try to bother them are egotists who totally deserve it when they get spiked.
Chau had delusions of grandeur, he had a death wish but could not or would not analyze his thoughts.
Something common to people who need to force their thoughts and beliefs on others.
@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames In This Moment I am Euphoric
Tell me you can't understand that other people believe other things without telling me you can't understand that other people believe other things
@perguto are you having a stroke?
@Raiden-pi3gt 2009 called they want their meme back.
Good documentary. I think we are underestimating how much iron they have harvested from ship wrecks being source of their iron tools.
Place tariffs on them, make them pay for any iron or steel they need to make weapons.😜🤪
34:19 I'm Bengali, and I was quite taken by surprise because "loha" is a word we use for steel or iron in our everyday lives in our language.
I am Australian, and I didnt know of the word Loha, but I assumed it would be borrowed from India. I think it is evidence that they first obtained iron from Indian Sailors.
Wow, amazing.
@joshwilko4430 a*stralians
Im Sinhalese we use "loha" word for metals
@EyalAveen2004oh yeah I found out abt it from my roommate, who also happens to be Sinhalese lol
Whelp the first guy went full Roger Kipling "White Man's Burden" didn't he?
21:06 That's because native Andamanese don't attack women, read Dudhnath Tewari account, he talks about how when the Great Andamanese raided British settlements, they avoided women, children, and the elderly.
likeca Yautja( to some degree)
That's incredibly interesting, I recognize Tewari but I didn't know he left behind an account of his time with the Aka-bea-da - the Battle of Aberdeen will be one of the first things I mention in the next part
Native Andamanese-1
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@ThePharaohNerd I'm glad you're getting into this, it would be very interesting to cover history of the Andamanese and Nicobar Islands. Lot's of under told anthropology and history.
@billyherrington5112 lol
“Lower your weapons! We just want to talk to you about your car’s extended warranty…”
What happens in North Sentinel Island stays in North Sentinel Island.
I had a wild ass party on North Sentinel Island, but i cant tell you about it.
All my homies love the big stein
@LazyUggugg "Ain't no party like a Sentinelese Party!" 🤯😳😵😵💫
I just know a lavish casino is hiding in there somewhere
First Rule of North Sentinel Island: You do NOT talk about North Sentinel Island
"Why does a place so beautiful have to have so much death?" for some reason he chose to ignore the life of the island and instead project his own death onto the world of the sentinalese. They tolerated him and told him exactly how they felt and he still went back
Would love an iceberg on uncontacted tribes in general, the Sentinelese are easily the one with the most information out there but there's so many other groups worthy of our protection
That's very true, great idea!
@ThePharaohNerd survival international is a charity that protects uncontacted indigenous people, if you did wanna do another video it could be cool to include a way to help!
Check out Paul Rosalie. He has done some great conservation work in the Amazon, and had many run-ins with the uncontacted. Like the Sentinelese, the uncontacted of the Amazon weren't always uncontacted. Around a hundred years ago rubber companies basically enslaved a number of tribes. Some of the other tribes saw this/had family members kidnapped to work the rubber plantations and said nope. So they just retreated as deep into the jungle as they could. They didn't forget that for their not so distant ancestors modern civilization = slavery. Pretty sad.
“worthy of our attention and support”
I see that you learned absolutely nothing.
@thisismyyoutubepage idk man i'm not exactly in favour of genocide
One thing that should not go unmentioned is that in our current era, mountains of junk wash up on the shores of islands. So the Sentinelese must be familiar with water bottles and plastic toys of all sorts, depicting things they can or cannot decypher, which is fascinating to me. I wonder what use they make of such material if at all. Having watched survival ytbers, sealed water bottles lost at sea can be a life saving ressource.
Oh my god, imagine they think a god is giving them gifts via the ocean and old McDonald's toys are like the many different venus figurines that meant fertility in the paleolithic times...
@逆巻スバル-f5hI mean, the long thin pieces of metal seen on early arrows mentioned in the vid are almost certainly nails taken from planks that washed ashore. The inuits also aquired iron this way iirc.
@逆巻スバル-f5hthere's a movie about this called the gods must be crazy. it's a lousy movie though
@逆@逆巻スバル-f5hlook up cargo cults, there's a whole deep dive on this kind of eclectic/syncretic religion
I think there was actually a ship that washed ashore on North Sentinel island that they ended up using for parts
When Chau said he planned to spend the rest of his life there, he probably didn’t realized just how right he was.
Oy vey
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Timestamps:
Tier 1:
3:30 The John Allen Chau incident
22:42 The drunk fishermen incident of 2006
Tier 2:
29:08 MV Primrose Wreck (1981)
32:15 The 20th Century Iron Age myth
42:07 Tsunami uplifting event (2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami)
45:52 The Zoo hypothesis
47:52 The RUclipsr incident of 2025 (Mikhailo Polyakov)
50:43 How many are there?
53:13 The close encounters (1991)
1:03:28 The Portman Expedition (1880)
Tier 3
just kidding that one and the rest of the tiers will be in a following video cause this guy wants to make us hate him apparently. Great video, great research, thanks for making it, brother! Now pin me or make some chapters ffs!
Where's the part about an iceberg? I can't seem to find it.
First time viewer and I'll be honest, I was expecting this to be a typical reading from a wiki iceberg that would get through the whole chart in a video but was pleasantly surprised to see the amount of detail given to each topic and hearing someone who seems very passionate about the topic and even does silly voices. Good video.
at the rate he’s going in the out of place artifacts series that one could genuinely take like 10 years to finish (not complaining)
1:02:40 btw it sounds ridiculous but "nariyela" is actually close to the word "nariyel" meaning coconuts, no idea what jaba jaba could mean but it's probably like "give coconunts" or something along the lines. It wouldn't be far off for natives to understand some of their language
Maybe coconut exchange? Meaning exchange of resources, or even cultural exchange in this context..?
Jaba jaba is from star wars isn't it? Maybe they want to watch it while eating their coconuts
Its literally because people from india go there and speak hindi.
I swear its like at least 80% of you didnt watch the video.
i was so ready to binge the rest of this as a series only to realize this was only posted 5 hours ago... cant wait to see whats next!
fr made me sad I have to wait now
Thank you, I'll try not to keep you guys waiting too long!
@ThePharaohNerd dont rush. Quality takes time
I'll be waiting excitedly. I wasn't subbed but I am now!@ThePharaohNerd
@ThePharaohNerd
Could you do Smolensk air crash deep dive iceberg? Thank you
Respect to the Indian government for trying to protect the islanders and not trying to colonize them
Preach louder brother ❤
Perhaps part of the reason for their aggressive behavior is that they have experienced potentially deadly disease outbreaks after previous contact with outsiders.
Doubtful. They are jumping up and down in g-strings with bow and arrows. They are literally the living image of racist cartoons. This is what the explorers saw over and over. The reality is most of the world were g-string folk jumping up and down with bow and arrow in hand.
@enkinightmare3881The British went on the island on some point...
@enkinightmare3881 The explorers also gave deadly diseases to people over and over. You sound like a racist cartoon yourself.
Or just because it's a human instinct to hate outsiders and they have zero incentive to refrain from it.
@enkinightmare3881as the video points out, they have had alot of foreign contact and have never died off. Probably for the exact same reason they have bowstrings on an island with no mammals.
knowing that we have no idea what the sentinelese actually call themselves is a weird feeling
Ooga booga
@AlanpittsS2bcringe
Click click
@shizenkvand your point??
@AlanpittsS2bthat is my point
I feel like all the evidence clearly points out that the Sentinelese dont WANT to hurt people, they simply see it as a means to protecting their way of life and I dont see how anyone can truly blame them for that.
I fully agree
stop treating these people as human. they are subhuman savages they dont think like us
Most people are like this.
dumb postmodernist take. if you cannot figure out that murdering missionaries/shipwrecked people is a negative thing, wiping you out will lose humanity nothing.
DG-iw3yw exactly, they accept gifts, then proceed to belittle those giving to them, using vulgarity, etc. People have this ideal that a primitive tribe isn't capable of having the same faults that civilized people have. They have this idea of the noble savage, which has never been accurate. I understand they are xenophobic. Most of us would have the same views, if we were those islanders. Im sure they have had to defend their island in the past, so they are going to be on point, an show aggression, when it comes to outsiders. They've had to be that way.
You have to understand how inbred these people are. They lack the mental capacity to really comprehend, what the gifters, fisherman, helicopters, are. They feel they have to show strength. They still live in the might equals right world.
Need a pt 2 asap
How dare RUclips recommend this to me with no follow up video, now I am to yearn
my toxic trait is that i think if i magically ended up on the island I'd be able to communicate with them and survive
Thats human nature to believe your special and better than your peers.
Nah I'd win.
They would skin you alive
My toxic trait is that I think I could invade and conquer the island.
@SheHasAnOnly-fishi think your toxic trait wins
Thank you for doing an iceberg that actually explains and gives some opinion/conjecture on what each topic means. Some of this is really obscure, and the modern iron age theory thing has been pressed into our heads since as far back as I've heard about NSI. Subbed for being a cool guy and thorough iceberger.
Thank you so much, I'm happy to have you as a subscriber!
The thumbnail makes it look like they’re mad Indiana Jones just flew off with a sacred artifact
An iceberg about North Sentinel Island is genius
0:30 okay but the poses though why are they so cool in this photo
Because intimidation displays are essential to early societies' protection
Posturing seems to be a universal trait among young males. Is the one with the armbands and wider headband with feathers of higher status?
0:21 Bro was doing the Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you dance 😩
And why are their arrows so big? Most archers don't use arrows of that size that I know of. Maybe the big arrows put more weight, thus more forceful impact?
jojo, pose. pose. pose.
Please do the whole iceberg
Officially holding my breath for part 2 : Day 1 😶
there's some theorising that the reason they were much more amicable to the 90's expeditions was because there were women in the research teams, so 1. it would have been less viewed as a war party and 2. virtually all of their prior negative experiences were with men.
very plausible
That’s what I was thinking while watching this!
Exactly my thoughts
You saying the tribesmen are sexist?
Right, because they see men as the ‘warriors or soldiers’. That’s a really good point. But women probably wouldn’t do this, because we’re not stupid. 😂
"everyone's talked about it so i will just go over the main point"
"john grew up near me and loved hiking. he was a really busy guy. did you know he played soccer?"
I literally didn't realize I spent an hour watching this, amazing, cant wait for part 2
I'm glad it was that enjoyable to watch for you, thanks!
"The last uncontacted tribe shows atitude during every and each contact..."
I'm genuinely fascinated by the Sentinelese culture: how do they view the stars? What unique species have evolved on their island? What plants are only known to them?
Right! I’m surprised no one mentioned their eco system. Then again we knowing the history I get it😂
You should go ask them!
You can check it from satellite maps, it’s a tiny island that’s probably pushed to the limit of how many people can live there… people used up anything unique on that island long ago but certainly their beliefs woukd be interesting
i dont think they have a lot of unique species on there. Most plants for example get transfered to other islands by birds and its not that remote,. Probably the same biosystem as Andaman. But i agree on the fascinating part of it all
@swayback7375true and very much possible! But at the same time they could have a culture that values nature, and protect it. It blows my mind that not a single life was lost during the tsunami. Like what do they know that we don’t? What skill have we giving up, that they still have? And I’m honestly happy, if these questions are left unanswered, if it means protecting them and their culture
imagine being some islanders just tryna mind ur business and ppl just wont leave u tf alone
yes cuz you can’t just live in the woods like this. they have no passports, pay no taxes, don’t follow any laws
@georgemurdock7670 why should they? Its their land their rules
@doitdasamewayits india not their land.
@georgemurdock7670 and people look at britain and european countries when these other countries run their countries just like a colonial system on the indigenous people
They wake up, eat, shit, drink, party, hate, and love just like we do. It irks me some people view them as spectacles or a "challenge", just seems very patronizing to what is an organized group of innocent tribespeople.
yeah we are all jiblets
Funnily enough, I agree with you here. Seems like most people see them as some kind of real world navi from Avatar. Not sure what the innocent part means though.
how are they innocent? if i did the things they did (especially the things they dont talk about but inevitably happen there) i'd be in prison within the hour, even if i found an island and claimed it as my own to do it on. these people have all the privilege in the world while i have to live under my fascist unelected government
@Valdraya Then go live like them, fighting for survival literally every single day lmao. It's very simple: Stay away from the island. If you find yourself there, find any means possible to leave, otherwise (like on any other deserted island) you'll just have to survive there until you get help.
@Valdraya Innocent as in a kind of natural purity that hasn't existed since Europeans from countless years ago decided to colonize and ruin everything that wasn't white or christian.
trying to view how they are (based on what we know) without putting it through the POV of someone in the modern world who has a set stone of rules based on how said world works is difficult, but it a simplicity that used to be the norm
There has to be more than 40 or 60 people there. That would be way too shallow of a gene pool you would think. My guess would be more like 100 - 150. The Island is small but its large enough to have groups scattered through out the Island. It can't be all of them showing up at once could it?? What I know for sure though is I would love to explore that island and see what they have been up to all these centuries. They are human so there has to be some art and musical instruments, places of rituals.
I wouldn't be shocked if the population has declined significantly, either due to disease, lack of contact with neighbouring areas or the tsunami coral wall cutting them off from fishing spots.
Why dont dozens of helicopters and thousands of soldiers just go there tho with way better man power and outnumber them
@TechnicalFax0we'd get more value sending them to your house tbh
@stoopidapples1596 scratch that original plan lets just send u to the island and record it, then sit back with popcorn on an 8k quality screen and watch the masterpiece. Very weird reply from u but the worlds full of eggs like u
@TechnicalFax0I am but one egg, you are the entire omelette
the sentinalese are so right for this i cant believe they let him off with a warning and he still came back.
How are they right for anything they’ve done exactly?
@JacobDukacause any outside contact could easily wipe them out, which im sure theyre somewhat aware of. even just the hand to hand coconut thing seems risky 😬
@johnleecooper8520that’s not why they kill people who get too close to them tho so I gotta disagree
@JacobDuka did the sentinelese tell you why they kill outsiders lmaooo
@dontkazethat’s my whole point. The original commenter said that they’re doing the right thing by killing people and someone replied saying that what they’re doing is good so that disease doesn’t spread. Thats insinuating that they’re killing people’s because they don’t want outsiders to give them diseases as if they would even be aware of that lol
I had no idea there was this much information on North Sentinel Island
This is the most interesting video I've seen lately, I'm really hyped for part 2
The fact they use 6ft arrows is amazing.
Yeah it's amazing that the Sentinelese use ft as a measuring unit
@Klattoossno idea if they use feet 😂 i'm using measurements im familer with. For all i know they messure in smeckledorfs
Kinda hate that this is a recent upload, I wish there was episode 2
What are their gods like? Their mythology. What do they tell of outside?
Nice to see someone who asked the same question to themself. I really wish I coud know there Mytholagy and write it down!
They follow universal archetypes, it can be predicted if you want
@secondchannel6566 Sure they probably have the same kinds of heroes and stories, doesn’t make me want to know any less
There is absolutely no way to know unless they choose to share someday
@pezpeculiar9557 There is still mystery left in the world. So exciting.
there is a fina line between being a believer and a loon
0:01 there’s no icebergs at North Sentinel Island - it’s really warm
I think those are clouds.
They like snow cones. Fish flavoured.
h ice en berg
@mrmanio4935 bravo vince
You idiot, those are CLOUDS
i opened my youtube app to some random video, this was the best possible outcome.
Mind of Chau: “Yeah they look black or whatever so I’ll just try speaking some random African language to them”
Just beyond ignorant
Maybe he would've done better blasting some Drake.
Yeah because that’s totally what he believed in lol
@JacobDuka Still a pretty stupid assumption to make either way. Why would a group of people descended from humans who got there about 60,000 years ago recognise any African language? They barely seemed to even understand the Onge language.
@JacobDukathat was his mindset, read his diary..he was under the impression that all black people share the same five languages
He was a Christian psycho
Not to disrespect the dead, but the "joshua project" is such a narcissistic concept.
You cannot spread Christianity with the sin of pride. He was evidently unaware of that.
@holyX agreed, I'm atheist but I don't hate religion/religious people. But this idea that "every person that doesn't know about my religion must know the amazingness of god" is fundamentally flawed in too many ways.
@codyjacobs6899and you just described literally every deity based religion on the planet. Which you would have known if you believed in anything at all.
@holyXhmmm. It's interesting and somewhat ironic that every charlatan in the comments says the exact same thing about pride. Just outright assuming that he couldn't have possibly just genuinely wanted to spread the word of God. Thats real pride, the kind that eats at men's souls.
@grizzlyblackpowder1960 I'm well aware. I was raised catholic, becane agnostic and eventually atheist. I'm 31, I didn't just whimsically decide to believe in "nothing". All religious institutions in my opinion are fundamentally flawed, the vast manirity of them, if not all, have ulterior motives. But there are plenty people, like my family, who were religious by belief at the extent of it, never questioned things like evolution, cartoons(I grew up around plenty of people that had religious issues with both of those things), or other modern norms. Went to church for special events only, if that, but didn't go on sundays. My family is well aware that I'm atheist and don't have an issue with it.
I don't think those tyoes of religious people are bad.
I think when religion forces you to ignore or even condemn the obvious then it's an issue. And the vast majority of that is institutional.
the fact that john chau learned xhosa, a language with no association to his missionary targets other than being capital a African, but didn't bother to learn any hindi to more easily find a boat to actually take him to the damn island... just amazing logic
Yeah it is pretty ridiculous
It's colonialist logic.
Perhaps there was something in his study of linguistics that somehow indicated there could be some similarity.
they have had no contact to Indians why learn Hindi
hindi is a recent language developed by Indo europeans
@arushwalvekar6070 he left for north sentinel from india dude... rewatch the video when you're more awake
4:48 dude saw all the red flags and still said “ I can fix her”
Men always think they’re fixing things when in reality they are just inserting themselves where they aren’t wanted lol.
Geezus told me so.
No its not my schitzophrenia. Why do you mention that?
@MarkJacobson-c3v lmfaooo
Narrator: neither did she want it nor did she need any fixing.
I think alot of these guys suffered some form of religious psychosis but that's just a shot in the dark
The multiple headed arrows remind me of fishing spears
Never heard the zoo hypothesis but I love that idea lol
its always north sentinel island
but never south sentinel island
It's uninhabited, mostly for tourist diving.
Yeah like the other guy said there's pretty much nothing there. Just a bunch of forest and reefs.
Sometimes subscribing to a channel while tired and tipsy pays off massively, thank you for this video, it came out of nowhere and made my night that much more interesting.
The Sentinel Island is yet another brainworm that you planted and "healed", all in one hour.
I can´t wait to see more, doesn´t matter when, my goldfish memory means the upload will be a pleasant surprise.
I'm so glad you like the channel, and I'm glad I'm able to show something interesting to you!
Right? I love when youtube sends me something like this.
The iron comes from the many shipwrecks and trade, they are not mining and smelting iron in furnaces and crucibles.
If they recognise the utility and repurposing iron they probably know how to fuse it too
@incoerenza4331 modern mild steel isnt melting in a camp fire without some serious oxygen added in so likely not.
How do you know?
All that is known is they had iron tools and weapons.
It's also not mentioned what type of iron it was. There are primitive ways to make iron, which resulted in low quality iron.
Just look up "bloomery furnaces". They're some of the oldest methods of smelting iron, and all you need is clay and charcoal.
A simple Clay oven can be hot enough to melt unrefined Iron. People started doing this long before they fully entered the Iron age and long before they extracted Large amounts of it from mines. Rock deposits in Rivers and lakebeds can contain some Iron that can be smelted. Still I don’t know if such deposits even exist on the island. Even if there was, the iron they have would be very Limited meaning they would likely use it for cultural purposes Like jewelry instead of adopting it as the primary material for tool construction
John was probably one of those houseguests who never know when it’s time to go. Everyone else has gone, but he’s still hanging out.
“Alright, John. It’s getting late. I’m gonna go to bed.”
John: “Ok, I’ll lock the door and turn off the lights before I leave”.😮
I would love to hear history from the Sentinelese side.
The amount of racism this comment sparked is insane.
Gooba gooba gooba gooba.
@jeffcostello9293 Circle, circle, circle.
See original (Translated by Google)
@jeffcostello9293beautiful ty. ❤
Go and ask them 🙃
ofc it's the liberal with nose piercing saying that
33:49 In the early what?
We're cooked
Came to the comments for this
670’s, he said 670’s a.d.
It’s over bro
*sighs, opens up replies*
according to wikipedia, portman was the third son, so he mightve cut out the family cuz he wasn't gonna inherit most of the fortune. a lot of people who made it big in the new world were often these second sons who had an advantage in their upbringing but knew they wouldn't have total security in the future, therefore took a chance at sea. i'm not sure if that applies to 19th century, or india, but that's the only explanation i could come up with.
15:53 Man, this guy performed every mental gymnastics move imaginable. It never occurred to him that they simply didn't want him on their island? He just couldn't accept that?
"Kind of ironic because she married one herself" Is fucking wicked.😭 💀🥀💔
Bro thank you for your channel
I'm Christian but the guy literally got saved by the Bible. He took at it as a sign to keep going it's was actually God's last warning.
God telling him to check his ego and leave people alone. He wasn't doing it for God or Jesus.
He wanted to glory and recognition.
@incarnateflame2312protected him from death.
@Maynard-002 did it though?
@scootergirl3662idk did it?
@Maynard-002evidently not, hes dead aint he? 🥀
The amount of iron from the shipwreck compared to the how much they got from trade over their entire history has to be an insane ratio.
I wonder if a Sentinelise had a thought like that and if it scared them in a cosmic horror-like fashion.
Yayyy I was bored being snowed in lol
Imagine they don't even know that snow exists
@perguto they for sure don't, no way it could snow there
@alexx12545Yeah no way it’s impossible i doubt they’ve seen ice either
Hella cozy
🤝
can people stop trying to spread and preach to tribes…
What an incredible coral paradise it must have been for so long. It must have been apocalyptic in 2004, how awful.
This is a fascinating, comprehensive, and wonderfully put together video. Great stuff, can’t wait to watch more.
God "choosing you from birth to spread his word to the island" only to have you die on a part of it already pre-named for you just tells me god has an edgelord sense of humor
As a christian i gotta say that once you get to meet him more deeply you will start noticing small details happening around you, coincidences and conveniences mainly, God is a lot of things, and oh man, he is the best writer out there.
As a Muslim I just think he was stupid and I would say that for an other Muslim who would try to do that.
@Nad13_3n_p4rticul4R I mean this as respectfully as possible, but that is literally a form a confirmation bias and not evidence of anything.
I wonder what Chau did with the people who tried to warn him about the sentielese. I am sure a few people were like "dude youre an idiot". And he probably just removed them from is life because that is classic narcissism.
doesn't justify his death
@thedarkmasterthedarkmasterhe quite literally asked for it
@Joey-Sands nah
@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster yes. he was foolish and kept trying to press on and deny the people their choice. you're brainwashed otherwise
@thedarkmasterthedarkmasterwhile it is a tragedy, it begs the question of what would have happened if they had not killed him. He clearly was not going to take no for an answer and probably would have kept paddling out there interminably. This becomes pretty sinister when you remember that his presence was quite literally threatening their entire society as they have no immunity to disease. If some keeps invading your property again and again and refuses to leave, what do you do?
28:07: Wow, that's a really admirable reaction. Must have been hard for a father to say, but it's absolutely true. RIP.
I wonder if they kill / murder each other on the island... They seem so good at killing it makes you think about how they treat each other.
A British officer in 1700: "Let's introduce our tasty British cuisine to the people of this small island!"
325 years later: a tribe that instantly hostile to any outlander
food so bad it made them not want it again
Oi yew haev a problm with fish and chips?
i think this comment sanitises the imperial intentions of the British
Safe racism is so gay
To be fair British food mid as hell they had every right to kill them