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5 Tribes in The World Not Exposed To Civilization.

Despite several attempts by several authorities around the world to make contact with these tribes, they have continued to resist civilization and remain in isolation without any form of contact with the modern world. 

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Do you know that they are groups of people (Tribes) living in isolation without any form of contact with civilization or the Modern world?

These tribes or communities know nothing of the Inventions of modern technology such as airplanes, the radio, television on even mobile phones. They roam largely inside the vast Amazon rainforest, nude (or close to it), hunting and gathering in order to survive.

However, despite several attempts by several authorities around the world to make contact with these tribes, they have continued to resist civilization and remain in isolation without any form of contact with the modern world.

1. The Sentinelese

Everything To Know About The Sentinelese, An Uncontacted Tribe In India

The Sentinelese are a tribe living on the North Sentinel island, off the shore of India, and are considered to be the most secluded tribe in the world. Not much is known about them, other than that they are a hunter-gatherer tribe, using bows and arrows to hunt for food. They are of shorter stature and very hostile towards intruders.

Several attempts to contact them and learn more about them failed, as a majority of the attempts were met with violence, resulting in the deaths of several people.

2. The Korowai

The Korowai are jungle tree-dwellers in southeastern Papua, New Guinea.  The tribe’s population was estimated to be around  3,000 to 4,000 people making them the world’s largest uncontacted tribes. The Korowai have evolved to have somewhat splayed feet. This helps them climb trees, where their homes are located.

It is believed that they practice cannibalism, as as they observe a tradition that states that witches take over men’s bodies commonly called  “khakhua”, can only be expelled by killing the man and eating him.

3. Mashco-Piro

The Mashco-Piro are nomads of a remote area of the Amazon Rainforest in southeastern Peru, near the Brazilian border. Their population is estimated to be around 800 and is known to attack and kill if they perceive someone as a threat.

The tribe lives in a community of raised wooden homes within the Amazon’s forested area. There, they make good use of the bamboo trees, using the long reeds to make spears and fermenting fruit in its pods to make alcohol.\

4. Fleicheros

They’re commonly called the “arrow people.” An isolated tribe from an area of Brazil called the Javari Valley.  Not very much is known about them except that they have great skill with bows and arrows and will launch poison arrows at people encroaching on their land.

5. The Surma People

The Surma People are a tribe in Ethiopia that has resisted contact with the rest of the world for years now.  they are popularly known for wearing giant plugs in their lips.

The first recorded time they were contacted by anyone outside the tribe was in the 1980s by Russian doctors. The Surma believed the doctors to be walking dead because of their light skin.

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