Stone Age Tribe Kills Fishermen Who Strayed On To Island

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-8-2006 | Peter Foster

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I guess voting him off wasn't an option.

Right, and I guess this pretty much rules out any appearances on "Survivor" for the fishermen.

[LIConFem]

"If they remain isolated with only 50 to 200 individuals, inbreeding will cause them to begin to die out in about 5 generations. "

One would think. But then how did they survive for 60,000 years?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Also reminds me of the joke about the captured missionaries who are given the choice between "death" and "Tonga" - the first two choose "Tonga" which is something better imagined then described, (to the delight of the natives) so the third gets brave and chooses "death" at which point the chief pronounces "I now sentence you to death.....by Tonga".

[twigs]

Let the fisherman's bodies rot.

Not on your life! I have no problem leaving them alone. But when they attack and kill people who mistakenly wonder onto their shores, their sovereign rights to not be disturbed end.

[twigs]

I was always scared about accidentally stumbling into the turf of the Jackson Whites.

Is that sarcasm or is that true? I've heard of them, but know less about them than I do the Melungeons.

[HitmanLV]

It's partially true. I was never terrified of stumbling onto the turf of the Jackson Whites, because I was in nyc and they were close but quite a hike away.

The Jackson Whites are real, best as I can tell. A lot of the more lurid stuff about them is just urban legend and people being fearful of such an insular, guarded people.

The rampant inbreeding, though, has caused its share of physical and even mental problems for members of that community.

Weird group of people. Best as i know, they don't actually bother anyone. A classic case of really wanting to be left alone.

[blam]

"I once read that these tribes are related to Bushman and Pygmy tribes. I know throughout Southeast and South Asia there are Black tribes, including Negritos. "

Nah. They are about as closely related to you as they are to the Khoisan Bushmen of Africa.

The human branch that produced everyone on earth today no longer exists in Africa, it went extinct there long ago.

[Varda]

Not True, some Pacific Islanders are in fact cannibals. The ones that come to mind though are in New Guinea.

[freedomlover]

(Waking up) Oh man . . I'll never drink agai.. THUCK

[freedomlover]

In the 1980s and early 1990s many Sentinelese were killed in skirmishes with armed salvage operators who visited the island after a shipwreck. Since then the tribesmen have remained virtually undisturbed.

Armed with what? More spears and arrows? I would bet three Navy SEALS could take that whole island with the right equipment - and I'm not even talking about RPG, just a good sniper and another two with M16s and loads of ammo.

[MillerCreek]

No, actually, not true, and in fact, you are describing the myth, not the reality by alleging that "...the notion...tribes practiced cannibalism grew from rumors spread to white explorers."

I'm sure that that's accurate to a certain degree but having known well many people who are first generation and in U.S. territories from mostly Indonesia and New Guinea specifically, cannibalism is well known and has been going on as a tradition for quite a while...especially the brains are eaten of any who is conquered and sometimes even revered, as a form of assuming their "power." It's not so rare, unfortunately, as some are now cautioned to conclude.

[blam]

"......especially the brains are eaten of any who is conquered and sometimes even revered, as a form of assuming their "power." It's not so rare, unfortunately, as some are now cautioned to conclude."

Yup. This is true. There was a tribe that ate the brains of the deceased elders as a form of reverence and to acquire the knowledge of those deceased. Unfortunately, it turns out that they were passing a form of ('unique') brain disease continuously through the generations with this practice. The disease was akin to something we call 'mad-cow disease' today but not the same. Anthropologists believe they have stopped this elder brain eating practice but, they're not 100% sure.

[JoeSixPack1]

So it's ok to break into your house anytime? Maybe you'll serve cookies while I'm stumbling around your living room? Sing Kumbayah? Introduce me to the family?

[MillerCreek]

Yes, I am aware of that problem. ~"One of" the "handicaps" to cannibalism.~

~:-o

[twigs]

I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about.

[JoeSixPack1]

I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about.

I understood that from your first reply.

It's called an analogy. That island is their home.

[twigs]

That gives no one the right to murder. I don't think that they should have to make nice with the outside world if they don't want to. But no one has the right to murder. The families have the right to retrieve those bodies. And someone needs to communicate with them that there IS a line beyond which they cannot go. Of course, they will try to kill anyone who tries to help them. Their loss.

[TexasRepublic]

Nothing that some napalm couldn't solve! /sarcasm

[Joe 6-pack]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a fisherman and the village chows down for at least a week!!

[JoeSixPack1]

That gives no one the right to murder.

Be careful with your use of the word 'murder'. Here in Florida I have the law on my side if I shoot and kill a home invader. That's not murder either.

Obviously you don't agree that the island is their home and they have a right to keep intruders out by any and all means. The two liquored up fisherman, with all the knowledge of the consequences of approaching that island, knew the rules.

So either let 'em rot or invade and conquer the island and impose outside rule.