Uncontacted peoples
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Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained direct relations with the world community. Generally such peoples are aware of the outside world, and have or had interact
Uncontacted peoples in the state of Acre in Brazil
Warning against entering the territory of uncontacted people in Peru
Aerial photograph of North Sentinel Island
Members of an uncontacted tribe in Acre, Brazil, in 2009
Shompen people
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The Shompen or Shom Pen are the Indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Uncontacted peoples
…noting that uncontacted peoples like the Sentinelese are vulnerable to being wiped out by contact-induced diseases to which they have no immunity. The Shompen or Shom Pen people are the Indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands…
A group of Shompen in 1886 with variation in hair types.