Tuesday 18 December 2018

Uncontacted tribes aren't 'Stone Age.' They just want — and deserve — to be left alone

Uncontacted tribes aren't 'Stone Age.' They just want — and deserve — to be left alone

The death last month of Christian missionary John Allen Chau, at the hands of the uncontacted island tribe he had hoped to evangelize, triggered a thorny debate. Was the Indian government, which oversees North Sentinel Island, keeping the people of this tribe in a glass museum box or protecting their freedom? Some scientists assert that these isolated tribes cannot survive without some intervention from outside.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mazower-uncontacted-people-20181216-story.html?source=Snapzu

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