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What Happened To The Rare Tribes (Tsunami)
Times Of India ^ | 12-28-2004 | Sanjay Dutta/Chandrika Mago

Posted on 12/28/2004 6:34:30 PM PST by blam

What happened to the rare tribes?

SANJAY DUTTA & CHANDRIKA MAGO

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 11:19:06 PM

NEW DELHI: An enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes — already threatened by their precariously small numbers — perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation.

Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave.

The bigger fear is for the Sentinelese, anthropologically the most important tribe, living on the flat North Sentinel Island. Putting their population at about 100, officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained isolated. The Nicobarese, numbering about 25,000, are also feared to have suffered major losses, if not near -extinction. Clustered in 12 villages along the coast of Car Nicobar, the worst affected, it is feared nearly half of them could have been engulfed by the giant wave.

Then there are the Chowra and Teresa islands, mostly inhabited by the Nicobarese. Chowra has reported 38 deaths from a total population of 1,500. Here, too, the picture is hazy. The Onges, living on the Little Andaman island, are expected to fare a little better. So far, 14 deaths have been reported from the island. Some of these would be Onges. To begin with, they just number a 100.

The Shompens, Great Andamanese and Jarawas are expected to have fared better as they live on comparatively higher grounds. But their small number could be working against them.


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To: oceanview

different culture. Different lands.

Go at your own risk.


81 posted on 12/28/2004 9:10:12 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Although given their birthrates, I doubt they love even the people they are married to, either.


82 posted on 12/28/2004 9:11:10 PM PST by Kitten Festival (The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
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To: Kitten Festival

You're being very kind to your own people. That's understandable.


83 posted on 12/28/2004 9:11:57 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: calex59

'64 was a HARPS gone wrong.


84 posted on 12/28/2004 9:13:36 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: Kitten Festival

You keep repeating yourself and haven't addressed the issues that I've raised. Your anti- Christian European hatred is also blatantly showing. You need some PC deprogramming.


85 posted on 12/28/2004 9:15:29 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Kitten Festival

If I had to choose between Asians and Mooselimbs, I'd pick Asians. They also had ancient civilizations, they didn't stay stuck in the Dark Ages, and they are in general cool people. As far as cannibals go, well, you are who you eat.


86 posted on 12/28/2004 9:15:31 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("Nature abhors a moron."-H.L. Mencken)
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To: SE Mom
You'd probably be amazed at how many Europeans vacation in Cuba in a year.

I'd no idea so many westerners visited that part of the world...

This is happening in the Northern Hemisphere primarily.

I've had a rather provincial view of the southern hemisphere til now.

87 posted on 12/28/2004 9:24:34 PM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: All

Look at this.....this is just STUNNING:

Here is an interesting selection of satellite photos of the tsunami as it hits Sri Lanka. Credit: Digital Globe.

Sea pulled outward: http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_beach2_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

Tsumami hits....look at this!!!!:http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

Just incredible...and very close up shots of what happened...look at the swirling!


88 posted on 12/28/2004 9:28:08 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: Baraonda; Kitten Festival

Whoah! I've followed this whole thread and been quite delighted at the mix of serious, drastic, jovial, cutting, etc. and didn't see that coming. If it's about America, I am the first one standing in the "this is how it is and these are the rules of our society if you want in" line but, truth stands above America, for she can err. Goodness is good. America has always been about improvement when corrected. That's how we got here! KF and everyone on this thread, in speaking positively about SEAsia, has spoken about those things to which all freedom loving people strive. To classify according to the sins of the fathers is none such thing as has any patriot ever approved; and I am tired of talking to you.


89 posted on 12/28/2004 9:32:50 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: eccentric; konaice

Unless I'm mistaken, the Sentinelese are the last completely isolated tribe in the world. When they say "all efforts at initiating contact have proved unsuccessful" they mean it. We don't even know what they call themselves. I guess we'll never know now..


90 posted on 12/28/2004 9:35:37 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: TexanToTheCore

The tsunami waves moved east and west from the earthquake, and Bangladesh was almost directly to the north so it was spared.


91 posted on 12/28/2004 9:57:35 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: blam

Darwin rules


92 posted on 12/28/2004 10:02:14 PM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: blam
Bump.

I like tribes. But I'm more interested in Germanic and Gothic ones.

93 posted on 12/28/2004 10:47:09 PM PST by Styria
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To: Styria

pre 3cad?


94 posted on 12/28/2004 11:02:00 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: muawiyah
Be happy this big quake happened at the Western end of Sumatra, and not the Eastern end.

This earthquate occurred closer to a much larger, by several orders of magnitude, and potentially more dangerous "super" volcano TOBA. The good news is, it's been quiet for the last 75,000 years.

FGS

95 posted on 12/28/2004 11:45:29 PM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: ForGod'sSake

Anoter quake with magitude 6.2 at Nicobar Islands http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ussqal.htm 2 hours ago, and many more earlier http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html


96 posted on 12/28/2004 11:59:11 PM PST by AdmSmith
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
In the words of the that famous bon-vivant & world explorer, Ferdinand Feghoot, to a young man aghast at the 'long pig' on a luau spit:

"Always remember that one man's meat is another man's poi, son."

97 posted on 12/29/2004 12:09:27 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: AdmSmith
Can you imagine what these people are going through!?!? Bodies everywhere and the ground still shaking like a bowl of jello. All the while wondering if there will be another big wave. May God help 'em.

FGS

98 posted on 12/29/2004 12:30:51 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: derheimwill

...'64 was a HARPS gone wrong......

Coast-to-coast said the Great Sumatran quake was 28 minutes away from being exactly one year from the BAMM, Iran earthquake and implying that they both were HAARP. (Now where's my tinfoil at?)



99 posted on 12/29/2004 12:47:50 AM PST by geopyg
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To: ForGod'sSake
"Can you imagine what these people are going through!?!?"

It would be hard enough for person who knew scientifically what was going on (earthquake, Tsunami, etc.). Not sure what these tribes understanding of it is. I'm sure they have stories of EQ and Tsunamis which would imply that they are survivable. But I imagine they may think the entire world is coming to an end. (And perhaps it is - for them).

One more image in my mind of how terrible this all is.

I've read where entire islands have disappeared. Not sure if they had people on them or not. Not too hard to believe - a drop in 20 to 30 feet in elevation near the epicenter could submerge a low island.
100 posted on 12/29/2004 12:54:30 AM PST by geopyg
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