The Sentinelese people are one of the last remaining isolated Indigenous tribes on earth, continuing to live today as they have for thousands of years. Since 1956 they have been protected by laws that prohibit anyone approaching their home on North Sentinel Island. But the laws are also in place to protect any outsiders who try to go there, as the Sentinelese tribe have pretty much tried to to kill anyone who goes near them.

Despite this, in 2018, a 26-year-old evangelical Christian missionary named John Allen Chau decided that the Sentinelese people, who had been living peacefully on North Sentinel Island for thousands of years, were actually part of Satan’s Last Stronghold on earth, because they had not yet accepted Jesus into their hearts by being converted to Christianity. John Allen Chau decided to change that. John Allen Chau is now dead. This is just the gist of John Allen Chau.

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National Geographic doco ‘The Mission To Contact’ (2023):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0KU_A1Xn0

Guardian article ‘The Life and Death of John Allen Chau, the Man Who Tried to Convert His Killers (2019):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese

Forbes article ‘Everything we know about the isolated people of North Sentinel Island’ (2018):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/

John Allen Chau’s wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Chau

North Sentinel Island wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

All Nations website:

https://allnations.international/

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