10 MOST ISOLATED AND WILD TRIBES ON THE PLANET

Today we live in a world of globalization where people are more connected and differences between different cultures are lost. Therefore it is strange that there are people that live in complete isolation from the rest of the world. Those are mostly tribes that live in a “hunting-collecting societies”, unaltered for thousands of years, and are completely isolated for history and the rest of the world.

That what is characteristic for these wild tribes, apart from living in isolated areas is that they are living in areas where they do not have any bigger problems with food and living, because everything is at their grasp. However, their way of life is today threatened by modern people that cut the forest and compromise their inhabitant. Although it is recommended, that these people are left alone, not only because it is their choice, and for moral reasons, but because they are not immune to diseases for which we already developed an immunity. From that illness in previous centuries, many communities of Indians from South and North America were practically extinct.

Tribes that live isolated are located on three different geographical areas: in South America where they are the most of them but there they are most threatened, in India and Papua-New Guinea.

In South America there is assumed to be a lot of tribes that live in isolation. Most of them are located in Brazil where it presumed that there are about 60 of them, although this number is not reliable because for some tribes it is only assumed that they exist, considering that we are talking about group of several dozens of people, it is very probable that they don’t exist. They way of life getting more and more threatened by modern corporation that are searching for natural resources that endanger their habitats.

In India there is a South Sentinel island where a group of natives live that refuse any contact with modern world. A couple of time they attacked any one that tried to get close. Indian government under whose jurisdiction the island is located, have decided, to at least for now, leave them alone and therefore they live completely isolated. It is estimated that there are around 40-400 of them and that they survive by fishing and collecting fruit.

Find out which 10 tribes until today live isolated from the rest of the world

10MASCHO PIRO

MASCHO PIRO IS Peruvian tribe, who remain largely tribe after a massacre by rubber tappers in 1894. A Spanish archeologist was killed by the tribe.

09AYOREO – TOTOBIEGOSODE

Found in Paraguay, this tribe, sustained contact wasn’t established until the 1940s. They resisting outside invasion, an unknown number still live nomadically in forest.

08JARAVA TRIBE

This tribe is numbering around 403 people, in a jungle reserve South Andaman. They have been the victim of tourism, forced to perform for peoples cameras by police.

07 YAMONAM

Part of Brazils YAMONAMI tribes who lost 1/5 of their population to disease brought by miners. Rarely seen, their numbers and location are largely unknown.

06THE PINTUPI NINE

Australian aborigines are living a traditional existence dating back 55.00 years. They have never seen a white man until 1984, but no longer live in the wilderness.

05KOROWAI TRIBE

Living in West Papaya in Indonesia, they inhabit tree houses built high up in the canopy. Numbering 3000 they did not encounter outsiders until 1970.

04 THE ISOLATED MAN

First spotted 15 years ago he was living in the Brazilian jungle by himself as the last of his tribe. Remained on the run from loggers, he was moving from hut to hut, for over a decade.

03YUPNO TRIBE

They are from Papua New Guinea, with limited contact and involved in a study of perception of time. They believe past and future are dictated by hills and rivers.

02SENTINELESE PEOPLES

Direct descendants of the 1st humans from Africa, they have lived in the Andaman Islands for around 60.000 years.

01THE OLD BELIEVERS

The old believers are scattered families of a religious group which split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1600s. They live in Siberia, unaware of changes in modern society.

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