Dark Reason Tribe That Killed American Christian Hate Outsiders
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An American missionary is believed to have been killed by Sentinelese tribespeople in the Andamans when he visited the island to teach them about Jesus.
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It was reported that John Allen Chau paid local fishermen to get him close to the remote Indian island before kayaking the rest of the way but was met by residents of the island who tried to shoot arrows at him.
The following day it is believed Mr Chau attempted to get to the island again and, according to Indian police reports, seven fishermen witnessed the tribespeople kill him with arrows before dragging his body away.
Many people have speculated that Mr Chau should never have travelled to the island and authorities haven't even attempted to send police to question the tribe, who have greeted outsiders with hostility for decades, according to Sky News.

Now one Twitter thread is attempting to explain why the natives of North Sentinel Island reacted the way they did to Mr Chau's arrival.
The majority of this explanation focuses on Maurice Vidal Portman, a Commander who had contact with the island in the 1880s.
According to the Twitter user, Portman was 'erotically obsessed with the Andamanese, and he indulged his passion for photography by kidnapping members of various tribes and posing them in mock-Greek homoerotic compositions'.
Portman spent most of his time in the greater Andaman Islands, but in 1880, he landed on North Sentinel. The natives fled, and his party ventured inland to find a settlement which had been abandoned in haste.
- Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) November 23, 2018
It is thought that Portman and his group located an elderly couple and a few children that they abducted. It's alleged that the couple quickly died, potentially because they had no immunity from illness due to them living in isolation with the rest of the tribe.
The children spent a few weeks with Portman doing god knows what, after which he returned them to the island. Portman returned on a couple occasions, but the Sentinelese hid from him each time.
- Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) November 23, 2018
Moving forward to the 1960s and 70s, when the Indian government attempted to make contact, the Sentinelese were hostile to outsiders.
Another example comes from 2006 when two fishermen were reportedly killed after drifting onto the island when their anchor detached while they were sleeping.
And their aggressiveness is not the mark of savagery. It just that their conception of outsiders is mostly framed by some foot-faced English pervert who murdered some old people and did weird things to their kids. So let's do them a favor and leave them alone.
- Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) November 23, 2018
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