A remote Indian island, a tribe that prefers to be left alone, and the death of an American missionary
NEW DELHI - In 1879, British colonialists forcibly brought an elderly tribal couple and some children from their remote Indian island to the nearest city. The sudden collision with modernity caused the islanders to fall ill, and the husband and wife died.
More than a century later, when an Indian Coast Guard helicopter flew over North Sentinel island to survey damage following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a tribesman standing naked on the beach raised a bow and fired an arrow at the chopper.
The message was clear: The Sentinelese tribe, perhaps the most isolated people in the world, would like to stay that way.
So it was grimly predictable that a young
