American Reportedly Killed In Flurry Of Arrows As Tribe Defends Its Island Off India

In this undated photo released by the Anthropological Survey of India, Sentinelese tribe men row their canoe near India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.

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Updated at 7:33 p.m. ET

They are hunter-gatherers who live on a remote, forested island in the Indian Ocean. They do not use money. They resist contact with the outside world — and have been known to sling arrows at outsiders who approach their shores.

They are the Sentinelese, one of the last remaining groups to reject contact with the outside world.