It is quite difficult for a modern person to imagine how one can do without all the benefits of civilization to which we are accustomed. But there are still corners of our planet where tribes live who are extremely far from civilization. They are not familiar with the latest achievements of mankind, but at the same time they feel great and are not going to make contact with the modern world. We invite you to get acquainted with some of them.
Sentinelese. This tribe lives on an island in the Indian Ocean. They shoot with arrows at anyone who dares to approach their territory. This tribe has absolutely no contact with other tribes, preferring to enter into intra-tribal marriages and maintain its population around 400 people. One day, National Geographic employees tried to get to know them better by first laying out various offerings on the coast. Of all the gifts, the Sentinelese kept only red buckets; everything else was thrown into the sea. They even shot the pigs, which were also among the offerings, with a bow from afar, and buried the carcasses in the ground. It didn't even occur to them that they could be eaten. When the people, who decided that now they could get acquainted, decided to approach, they were forced to take cover from the arrows and flee.
Piraha. This tribe is one of the most primitive, known to mankind. The language of this tribe does not shine with diversity. It does not, for example, contain names of different color shades, definitions natural phenomena, — the set of words is minimal. Housing is built from branches in the form of a hut; there is almost nothing from household items. They don't even have a number system. In this tribe it is forbidden to borrow the words and traditions of other tribes, but they also do not have the concept of their own culture. They have no idea about the creation of the world, they do not believe anything that they have not experienced for themselves. However, they do not behave aggressively at all.
Loaves. This tribe was discovered quite recently, in the late 90s of the 20th century. Little monkey-like people live in huts in the trees, otherwise the “sorcerers” will get them. They behave very aggressively and are reluctant to let strangers in. Wild pigs are domesticated as domestic animals and used on farms as horse-drawn vehicles. Only when the pig is already old and cannot transport loads can it be roasted and eaten. Women in the tribe are considered common, but they make love only once a year; at other times, women cannot be touched.
Maasai. This is a tribe of born warriors and herders. They do not consider it shameful to take away cattle from another tribe, since they are sure that all the cattle in the area belong to them. They are engaged in cattle breeding and hunting. While the man is dozing in the hut with a spear in his hands, his wife takes care of the rest of the household. Polygamy in the Maasai tribe is a tradition, and in our time this tradition is forced, since there are not enough men in the tribe.
Nicobar and Andaman tribes. These tribes do not shun cannibalism. From time to time they raid each other in order to profit from human flesh. But since they understand that such food as a person does not grow and increase in size very quickly, then Lately They began to organize such raids only on a certain day - the holiday of the goddess of Death. IN free time men make poison arrows. To do this, they catch snakes, and sharpen stone axes to such a state that cutting off a person’s head costs nothing. In especially hungry times, women can even eat their children and the elderly.
It is believed that there are no less than a hundred “isolated tribes” in the world that still live in the farthest corners of the world. Members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the paths of development different cultures for many centuries.
10. The Surma People
The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with Western world for many years. However, they are quite famous in the world due to the huge plates they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the Surma people lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest cattle breeding.
The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surma were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Because the doctors were white-skinned, the tribe members initially thought they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of equipment that members of the Surma people have adopted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.
9. Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists
While wandering in the jungles of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The entire incident was captured on film: the tribe tried to communicate with the tourists, but due to the fact that the tribe members did not speak either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.
After studying the tape recorded by the tourists, Peruvian authorities soon realized that the group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and searched for them without success. long years, and tourists found them without even looking.
8. Lonely Brazilian
Slate magazine called him "the most isolated person on the planet." Somewhere in the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. Just like Bigfoot, this one mysterious person disappears just when scientists are about to discover it.
Why is he so popular, and why won’t they leave him alone? It turns out that according to scientists, he is last representative isolated tribe in the Amazon. He only person in a world that has preserved the customs and language of its people. Communicating with him will be tantamount to finding a precious treasure of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.
7. Ramapo Tribe (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)
During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast North America. By this point, every tribe between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River had been added to the catalog of known peoples. As it turned out, all but one were included in the catalogue.
In the 1790s, a previously unknown tribe of Indians emerged from the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some of the biggest battles, such as the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary War, actually taking place in their backyards. They became known as the Jackson Whites because they had light color skin, and also due to the fact that they were believed to have originated from "Jacks" (a slang word for British).
6. Vietnamese tribe Ruc (Vietnamese Ruc)
During the Vietnam War, unprecedented bombings of regions isolated at that time took place. After one particularly heavy American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribesmen emerging from the jungle.
This was the first contact of the Rook tribe with people with advanced technology. Because their jungle home was badly damaged, they decided to stay in modern Vietnam and not return to their home countries. traditional dwellings. However, the values and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation for many centuries, did not please the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.
5. The Last of the Native Americans
In 1911, the last Native American untouched by civilization walked calmly out of the woods in California, in full tribal garb - and was promptly arrested by shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.
After questioning by the police, who were able to find a translator from a local college, it was revealed that Ishi was the only survivor of his tribe after his tribe was wiped out by settlers three years earlier. After trying to survive alone using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.
Ishi was taken under the wing of a researcher from Berkeley University. There, Ishi told the teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature provided. Many of these techniques were either long forgotten or completely unknown to scientists.
4. Brazilian tribes
The Brazilian government was trying to find out how many people lived in isolated areas of the Amazon lowland in order to add them to the population register. Therefore, government aircraft equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to locate and count the people below it. Tireless flights did indeed produce results, albeit very unexpected ones.
In 2007, a plane performing a routine low flight in order to obtain photographs was unexpectedly hit by a rain of arrows, which a previously unknown tribe used to fire at the plane with bows. Then, in 2011, satellite scanning detected several specks in a corner of the jungle where people were not even expected to be present: as it turned out, the specks were people after all.
3. Tribes of New Guinea
Somewhere in New Guinea there likely remain dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs that are still unknown. to modern man. However, because the area is largely unexplored, and because the character and intentions of these tribes are uncertain, with frequent reports of cannibalism, the wild part of New Guinea is very rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions that set out to track down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.
For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the world's largest fortunes, was separated from his group and apparently captured and eaten by members of the flames.
2. The Pintupi Nine
In 1984, an unknown group of Aboriginal people was discovered near a settlement in Western Australia. After they escaped, the Pinupian Nine, as they were eventually called, were tracked down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water flowed from pipes and there was always an ample supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in modern city, several of them became artists working in the style traditional art. However, one of the nine, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.
1. The Sentinelese
The Sentinelese are a tribe of approximately 250 people who live on North Sentinel Island, located between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they greet the visitor with a hail of arrows.
Several peaceful encounters with this tribe in 1960 have given us almost everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as a gift were eaten rather than planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly dismantled by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.
Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to first write their will. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader took an arrow to the thigh and two local guides were killed.
The Sentinelese have built a reputation for their ability to survive natural disasters - unlike many modern people living in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Lives on the banks of the Meikhi River wild tribe Pirahu, numbering about three hundred people. The natives survive by hunting and gathering. The peculiarity of this tribe is their unique language: there are no words denoting shades of colors, there is no indirect speech, and also interesting fact, it does not contain numerals (Indians count - one, two and many). They have no legends about the creation of the world, no calendar, but despite all this, the Pirahu people have not been found to have the qualities of reduced intelligence.
Video: Amazon Code. In the deep jungle of the Amazon River lives the wild Pirahã tribe. Christian missionary Daniel Everett came to them to bring the word of God, but as a result of becoming acquainted with their culture, he became an atheist. But much more interesting than this is a discovery related to the language of the Piraha tribe.
Another known wild tribe of Brazil is the Sinta Larga, numbering about one and a half thousand people. Previously, this tribe lived in the rubber jungle, however, due to their deforestation, the Sinta Larga became a nomadic tribe. The Indians engage in fishing, hunting and farming. There is patriarchy in the tribe, i.e. a man can have several wives. Also, throughout his life, a Cinta Larga man receives several names, depending on individual characteristics or certain events in his life, but there is one special name that is kept secret and only those closest to him know it.
And in the western part of the Amazon River valley lives a very aggressive Korubo tribe. The main occupation of the Indians of this tribe is hunting and raids on neighboring settlements. Moreover, both men and women, armed with poisoned darts and clubs, take part in the raids. There is evidence that cases of cannibalism occur in the Korubo tribe.
Video: Leonid Kruglov: GEO: Unknown world: Earth. Secrets of the new world. " Great River Amazons." "Korubo Incident".
All these tribes represent a unique find for anthropologists and evolutionists. By studying their life and culture, language, and beliefs, one can better understand all stages of human development. And it is very important to preserve this heritage of history in your in its original form. In Brazil, a special government organization (National Indian Foundation) has been created to deal with the affairs of such tribes. The main task of this organization is to protect these tribes from any interference of modern civilization.
Adventure Magic - Yanomami.
Film: Amazonia / IMAX - Amazon HD.
Photographer Jimmy Nelson travels the world capturing wild and semi-wild tribes who manage to preserve traditional lifestyle in modern world. Every year it becomes more and more difficult for these peoples, but they do not give up and do not leave the territories of their ancestors, continuing to live the same way they lived.
Asaro tribe
Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Filmed in 2010. The Asaro Mudmen ("Mud-Covered People of the Asaro River") first encountered the Western world in the mid-20th century. Since time immemorial, these people have been smearing themselves with mud and wearing masks to instill fear in other villages.
“Individually they are all very nice, but because their culture is under threat, they are forced to fend for themselves” - Jimmy Nelson.
Chinese fishermen tribe
Location: Guangxi, China. Filmed in 2010. Fishing with a cormorant is one of the oldest methods fishing with the help of waterfowl. To prevent them from swallowing their catch, fishermen tie them around their necks. Cormorants easily swallow small fish, and bring large ones to their owners.
Maasai
Location: Kenya and Tanzania. Filmed in 2010. This is one of the most famous African tribes. Young Maasai go through a series of rituals to develop responsibility, become men and warriors, learn to protect livestock from predators, and provide security for their families. Thanks to the rituals, ceremonies and instructions of the elders, they grow up to be real brave men.
Livestock are central to Maasai culture.
Nenets
Location: Siberia – Yamal. Filmed in 2011. The traditional occupation of the Nenets is reindeer herding. They lead a nomadic lifestyle, crossing the Yamal Peninsula. For more than a millennium, they have survived at temperatures as low as minus 50°C. The 1,000 km long annual migration route lies across the frozen Ob River.
“If you don’t drink warm blood and don’t eat fresh meat, then you’re doomed to die in the tundra.”
Korowai
Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Filmed in 2010. The Korowai are one of the few Papuan tribes that do not wear kotekas, a type of sheath for the penis. The men of the tribe hide their penises by tightly tying them with leaves along with the scrotum. Korowai are hunter-gatherers who live in tree houses. This people strictly distributes rights and responsibilities between men and women. Their number is estimated at approximately 3,000 people. Until the 1970s, the Korowai were convinced that there were no other peoples in the world.
Yali tribe
Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Filmed in 2010. The Yali live in the virgin forests of the highlands and are officially recognized as pygmies, since the men are only 150 centimeters tall. The koteka (gourd sheath for the penis) is part of the traditional clothing. It can be used to determine whether a person belongs to a tribe. Yali prefer long thin cats.
Karo tribe
Location: Ethiopia. Filmed in 2011. The Omo Valley, located in Africa's Great Rift Valley, is home to approximately 200,000 indigenous peoples who have inhabited it for thousands of years.
Here, tribes have traded among themselves since ancient times, offering each other beads, food, cattle and fabrics. Not long ago, guns and ammunition came into use.
Dasanech tribe
Location: Ethiopia. Filmed in 2011. This tribe is characterized by the absence of a strictly defined ethnicity. A person of almost any origin can be admitted to Dasanech.
Guarani
Location: Argentina and Ecuador. Filmed in 2011. For thousands of years, the Amazonian rainforests of Ecuador were home to the Guaraní people. They consider themselves the bravest indigenous group in the Amazon.
Vanuatu tribe
Location: Ra Lava Island (Banks Islands Group), Torba Province. Filmed in 2011. Many Vanuatu people believe that wealth can be achieved through ceremonies. Dance is an important part of their culture, which is why many villages have dance floors called nasara.
Ladakhi tribe
Location: India. Filmed in 2012. Ladakhis share the beliefs of their Tibetan neighbors. Tibetan Buddhism, mixed with images of ferocious demons from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion, has underpinned Ladakhi beliefs for over a thousand years. The people live in the Indus Valley, engage mainly in agriculture, and practice polyandry.
Mursi tribe
Location: Ethiopia. Filmed in 2011. “It is better to die than to live without killing.” Mursi are pastoralists, farmers and successful warriors. Men are distinguished by horseshoe-shaped scars on their bodies. Women also practice scarring and also insert a plate into the lower lip.
Rabari tribe
Location: India. Filmed in 2012. 1000 years ago, representatives of the Rabari tribe were already roaming the deserts and plains that today belong to Western India. Women of this people devote long hours to embroidery. They also manage the farms and decide everything money matters and the men tend the flocks.
Samburu tribe
Location: Kenya and Tanzania. Filmed in 2010. The Samburu are a semi-nomadic people, moving from place to place every 5-6 weeks to provide pasture for their livestock. They are independent and much more traditional than the Maasai. Equality reigns in Samburu society.
Mustang tribe
Location: Nepal. Filmed in 2011. Most of the Mustang people still believe that the world is flat. They are very religious. Prayers and holidays are an integral part of their life. The tribe stands apart as one of the last strongholds of Tibetan culture that has survived to this day. Until 1991, they did not allow any outsiders into their midst.
Maori tribe
Location: New Zealand. Filmed in 2011. Maori are adherents of polytheism and worship many gods, goddesses and spirits. They believe that the spirits of ancestors and supernatural beings are omnipresent and help the tribe in difficult times. The Maori myths and legends that arose in ancient times reflected their ideas about the creation of the Universe, the origin of gods and people.
“My tongue is my awakening, my tongue is the window of my soul.”
Goroka tribe
Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Filmed in 2011. Life in high mountain villages is simple. Residents have plenty of food, families are friendly, people honor the wonders of nature. They live by hunting, gathering and growing crops. Internecine clashes are common here. To intimidate the enemy, Goroka warriors use war paint and jewelry.
“Knowledge is just rumors while they are in the muscles.”
Huli tribe
Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Filmed in 2010. These indigenous people fight for land, pigs and women. They also spend a lot of effort trying to impress their opponent. Huli paint their faces with yellow, red and white dyes, and also have a famous tradition of making fancy wigs from their own hair.
Himba tribe
Location: Namibia. Filmed in 2011. Each member of the tribe belongs to two clans, father and mother. Marriages are arranged for the purpose of expanding wealth. Vital here appearance. It talks about a person's place within a group and their phase of life. The elder is responsible for the rules in the group.
Kazakh tribe
Location: Mongolia. Filmed in 2011. Kazakh nomads are descendants of the Turkic, Mongolian, Indo-Iranian group and the Huns, who inhabited the territory of Eurasia from Siberia to the Black Sea.
The ancient art of eagle hunting is one of the traditions that the Kazakhs have managed to preserve to this day. They trust their clan, count on their herds, believe in the pre-Islamic cult of the sky, ancestors, fire and supernatural powers good and evil spirits.
The people who will be discussed in this article manage to ignore the civilized world and live as if there had never been anyone else in the whole world besides them...
The Sentinelese tribe settled on North Sentinel Island, which is nominally part of India. These people are usually called the same as the island, because no one has any idea what these people call themselves.
In truth, nothing else is really known about them either. After a terrible tsunami hit the island in 2004, several helicopters were sent there to take photographs and make sure that the island was still inhabited. 
How did they manage to avoid contact with modern civilization for so long?
This is explained very simply. Take a look at this photo taken from a helicopter:
The rest of the tribe members are also aggressive. They don’t make contact, and as soon as they do, they immediately grab their bow and arrows.
In 2006, a boat with two fishermen was carried by the current into shallow waters near the island. The Sentinelese killed them and buried them on the shore. The helicopters identified the burial place of the unfortunates, but were unable to land, because at the sight of the helicopter, the local population, as you may have already noticed, immediately “opened fire.” Despite the fact that the natives obviously have no idea what a helicopter is, they persistently tried to reach the strange giant iron bird with their arrows. Well, they don’t like guests and that’s all.
The police, who in theory should go and pick up the bodies of the unfortunate fishermen, flatly refuse to do this, declaring that as soon as they approach the island, they will immediately be bombarded with poisoned darts and arrows - which, in general, can be considered a good reason.
Even our ancestors, who were more courageous than you and me, believed that getting involved with these unsociable people would cost themselves more: Marco Polo described them as “the most cruel and bloodthirsty people, always ready to grab and eat anyone who falls into their hands.”
In other words, for hundreds of years, while the rest of the world was busy conquering each other's lands, these guys earned such a bad reputation that they took over various kinds conquerors are eager to go there. In the end, all of “progressive humanity” decided to leave these crazy cannibals alone.
2. Korowai
This tribe lives in southeastern Papua. They first learned about the existence of other people in the 1970s, when they were discovered by a group of archaeologists and missionaries. At this time, they still used stone tools and built their dwellings in trees. However, since then, nothing has changed for them, one might say. 
All guests from the civilized world of the Korowai are told that if ever one of them changes their traditions, then the entire Earth will inevitably perish from a monstrous earthquake. It’s not clear whether this is such devotion to tradition, or just a way to get rid of the smart guys from the “mainland” who are always trying to teach them about life.
Be that as it may, they manage to remain in their previous state simply excellent. The missionaries came around a couple of times with their enlightenment, but then decided to leave them alone. What if, who knows, the earthquake isn’t completely nonsense after all?
The Korowai live in such an impenetrable area, literally beyond high mountains and dark forests, that even their own villages have practically no contact with each other, let alone the outside world. When the census service decided to visit the tribe in 2010, they had to travel for two weeks on foot and then by boat from the nearest (and in fact very remote) villages.
The Korowai do not particularly show that they do not like outside visits. And in order for the uninvited guests to get away as quickly as possible, they come up with all sorts of tricks. In addition to scaring people with a terrible, terrible earthquake, which will definitely happen as soon as the first Korowai puts on his pants, they love to scare people by talking about their bloodthirsty traditions.
But the Australian newsmakers who approached the Korowais in 2006 were fooled in the most elegant way. The tribe sent a boy to the annoying strangers, who told reporters a heartbreaking story about how cannibals were chasing him, and that at the next meal he should become the main dish of the tribe.
After the story was taped and film crew hastily retreated, the next journalists arrived, for whom exactly the same performance was staged with the rescue of the “poor boy”.
Scientists who have studied the tribe assure that these people simply have a good sense of humor and that there is no smell of cannibalism here. Just funny people who live in trees and love practical jokes.
3. The loneliest man in the world
This man has been living in complete isolation in the Brazilian forest for at least fifteen years.
He builds himself palm huts and digs rectangular holes one and a half meters deep in the ground. Why he needs these holes can only be guessed, because with any attempt to establish contact, he abandons his familiar place and finds a new one in order to build exactly the same hut and dig exactly the same hole.
No one in the area is building anything like this, from which scientists have concluded that this is the last surviving representative of some disappeared tribe.
How has he managed to ignore the modern world for so long?
In 1988, the new Brazilian Constitution granted local Indians rights to their ancestral lands. In theory, the idea seemed simply wonderful. But in practice... When, according to the law, it became prohibited for tribes to be “forced to relocate” to other places, they began to simply be exterminated.
Apparently, this is precisely the fate that befell our hero’s fellow tribesmen: his first meeting with the modern world ended for him with the death of everyone he knew. Who wants to make contact with monsters who have come up with the perfect tools to destroy your family and friends?
4. Old Believers
In 1978, Soviet geologists searching for iron ore deposits in remote parts of Siberia stumbled upon a log cabin. The family that lived there had no idea about the existence of civilization; they dressed in matting and ate from homemade dishes. When they saw the members of the expedition, they were horrified and began shouting something like “This is all for our sins!”
Later it turned out that the Lykov family (as they called themselves) were not the only Siberian hermits. Similar group people lived in the taiga in complete isolation, at least until 1990.
All these people turned out to be Old Believers. In the 17th century, during the schism of the Russian Church, they fled from reprisals and settled far from outside world. And they lived like this for several centuries. Siberia is too vast and inhospitable - no one would think of combing it to find a couple of dozen fugitives.
Agafya Lykova, 2009
5. Tribe Mashko-Piro
People from the Mashco-Piro tribe, half naked and generally looking like settlers from the prehistoric era, recently began to appear in the area of one of the Peruvian rivers popular with Western tourists.
Previously, any attempts to approach them were stopped by a hail of burning arrows. No one knows why they suddenly decided to discover their existence on their own. According to the assurances of specialists who have been in contact with them, for now their keenest interest is mainly in metal pots for cooking and machete knives.
How did they manage to stay away from civilization for so long?
The Peruvian government itself tried to limit contacts with the tribe and prohibited tourists from going ashore near the habitats of savages. The idea was to protect these people from annoying anthropologists and greedy businessmen who are ready to make money on anything.
Unfortunately, there were and are still cunning private travel companies offering clients “human safari”.
6. Pintubi Aborigines
In 1984, a small group of people from the Pintubi tribe met a white man in the desert. There would be nothing unusual in this, except for the fact that not a single person from this tribe had ever seen one before white man, and that the first white settlers arrived in Australia in 1788. Later, one of the Pintubi explained that at first he accepted " pink man"for an evil spirit. The first meeting did not go very smoothly, but then the natives softened and decided that the “pink ones” could even be useful.
Needless to say, they were very lucky to be found so late. They wandered through the deserts all those years when it was easy to fall into slavery or straight to the next world, and met with Western culture exactly when she was already ready to take them for a ride in a jeep and treat them to Coca-Cola.
How did they manage to avoid civilization for so long?
There are two reasons for this: 1) they are nomads and 2) they roam the deserts of Australia, where it is generally quite difficult to meet people.
This group might never have been discovered. Shortly before their first meeting with the white man, the Pintubi accidentally met with the “civilized” aborigines. Unfortunately, the appearance of the nomads with loincloths made of human hair and two-meter spears was too exotic even for indigenous Australians. One of the “civilized” ones fired into the air and the Pintubi ran away.
