As we know, there have been numerous attempt to befriend the isolated tribe of North Sentinel Island but all of them were met with rejection and even hostile treatment. Despite that, people keep on hoping and trying their best to bridge the path to these indigenous people. The recent death of an American who attempt to do so stand as proof to that.

One thing in common with all these expedition undertook to get close to these indigenous people is that they were all composed of foreign looking men, which might be perceived as threat by the locals (especially male locals, since they’re the warriors sent to greet the outsiders), which led to their dismissal. I have a hypothesis that if a woman (let’s just say a highly ambitious anthropologist) of physically and closely related ancestry were to be sent there, naked, and willing to be used by his captors to further her study about their living then the chances of us learning the truth about the tribe will be much higher. I think this is a better strategy due to these reasons:
– Men are lustful for women, North Sentinel Island men are no exception. The chance that this woman will be made as partner or ‘trophy wife’ is there. Seduction and compliance will come in handy when meeting this men.

- If she’s made as their wife then her chances of survival in their tribe will be retained since due to what seem like Patriachal culture the men can declare a new member and even the women of the tribe will not go against this and harm the newly introduced woman.

- If this woman is made pregnant the her acceptance in to the tribe might become permanent. The people would have seen her as fully assimilated in to the tribe since she’s carrying their future bloodline. Not to mention that such a thing will actually help their long-standing inbred generations. At this point she might have a very good chance to act as the representative between the tribe and the outside world.

We have successfully open our world to the Jarawa (another tribe near Sentinelese island) people through a representative, we might have failed several times to do so with Sentinelese island even with gifts but that doesn’t mean a different, more ancient approach (mate introduction) won’t work. What do you think about my hypothesis? Do you have a better, more plausible idea? Any scientific reasoning will be greatly appreciated.

Topics: strategy, anthropology, society, Ancient, hypothesis, Assimilation, modern world, North Sentinel island, Indigenous tribe, Sentinelese