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The remote North Sentinel islanders who killed 27-year-old John Chau. Source:SuppliedUsing binoculars, officers — in a police boat about 400 metres from the shore — saw the men armed with bows and arrows, the weapons reportedly used by the isolated tribe to kill Mr Chau as he shouted Christian phrases at them.“They stared at us and we were looking at them,” Mr Pathak said.
The boat withdrew to avoid any chance of a confrontation.Police are taking painstaking efforts to avoid any disruption to the Sentinelese — a pre-neolithic tribe whose island is off-limits to outsiders — as they. A Stone Age tribe killed American missionary John Chau with bows and arrows. His family blames him for the outcome of his misplaced attempt to convert them. The Sentinelese are one of the world’s last “uncontracted” tribes whose language and customs remain a mystery to outsiders. Source:SuppliedOne week after their deaths, the bodies of the two Indians were hooked on bamboo stakes facing out to sea.“It was a kind of scarecrow,” Mr Pathak said.“We are studying the 2006 case. We are asking anthropologists what they do when they kill an outsider,” the police chief added.“We are trying to understand the group psychology.”ANOTHER WORLDDependra Pathak is the director-general of police of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where North Sentinel is located.“We have more or less identified the site and the area in general,” Mr Pathak said.“They were patrolling the beach, at the same spot John was killed, with weapons,” he said, according to the New York Times.“Had we approached they would have attacked. This case is the strangest and toughest in my life,” Mr Pathak said.
“We are trying to enter into another civilisation’s world.”. North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A Jarawa tribe boy, one of the five tribes in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, which are on the verge of extinction. Picture: AP Source:News Corp AustraliaWANTED TO SHARE ‘LOVE OF JESUS’Mr Chau went to “share the love of Jesus,” said Mary Ho, international executive leader of All Nations.All Nations, a Kansas City, Missouri-based organisation, helped train Mr Chau, discussed the risks with him and sent him on the mission, to support him in his “life’s calling,” she added.“He wanted to have a long-term relationship, and if possible, to be accepted by them and live among them,” she said. John Chau wanted to “share the love of Jesus” with the tribe, according to the Source:SuppliedWhen a young boy tried to hit him with an arrow on his first day on the island, Chau swam back to the fishing boat he had arranged to wait for him offshore. The arrow, he wrote, hit a Bible he was carrying.“Why did a little kid have to shoot me today?” he wrote in his notes, which he left with the fishermen before swimming back the next morning.“His high-pitched voice still lingers in my head.”Police say Mr Chau knew that the Sentinelese resisted all contact by outsiders, firing arrows and spears at passing helicopters and killing fishermen who drift onto their shore.His notes, which were reported Thursday in Indian newspapers and confirmed by police, make clear he knew he might be killed. “I DON’T WANT TO DIE,” wrote Mr Chau, who appeared to want to bring Christianity to the islanders.“Would it be wiser to leave and let someone else to continue.
No I don’t think so.” Mr Chau paid fishermen to take him near North Sentinel, using a kayak to paddle to shore and bringing gifts, including a football and fish.The Indian government lifted restrictions on travelling to the island in August, Ms Ho said. She said she couldn’t comment on why Mr Chau arrived there the way he did, but that he carefully planned it. Tribe members hurl spears at a helicopter as authorities fly over North Sentinel Island to assess damage after the 2004 tsunami. Picture: Indian Coast Guard Source:SuppliedSTONE AGE TRIBEThe Sentinelese are thought to have lived on the island for 30,000 years but have had very little contact with outsiders.North Sentinel island is part of the far flung Andaman Islands in the vast Bay of Bengal. The region is home to five Stone Age tribes — which anthropologists believe to be the last of their kind and are dwindling in numbers.While the Sentinelese have been cut off from the rest of the world for decades they are a protected group under the government of India, which lies to the West of the island.
General Nicholas Herkimer at the Battle of Oriskany.Photo Courtesy of Utica, NY Public Library Compiled by Park Ranger William SawyerThe occurred on August 6, 1777, when the local Tryon County Militia attempted to come to the relief of the On July 30, 1777, the militia's commander, had ordered his men to begin assembling at Fort Dayton (located in the modern Herkimer area). By August 4, around 800 of the militia were assembled and ready to begin the march to relieve Ft. The militia brigade was composed of four regiments, mostly of immigrants or descendents: The 1st (Canajoharie) Regiment under Col. Ebenezer Cox, the 2nd (Palatine) Regiment under Col. Jacob Klock, the 3rd (Mohawk) Regiment under Col. Fredrick Visscher, and the 4th (Kingsland-German Flatts) Regiment under Col. Peter Bellinger.By the evening of August 5, the militia and its 15 supply and baggage wagons was encamped near the Village of Oriska (in the area of modern Oriskany, NY) about 8 miles from Ft.
Earlier that day, Herkimer had sent three messengers forward to the fort to let know the militia was on its way. Herkimer may have also requested Gansevoort to stage a diversionary attack against the British lines.
This would draw attention away from the militia's advance. Gansevoort was to fire three cannons from the fort as a signal that the messengers had arrived and that the militia should advance.
Herkimer had no intention of moving until he heard the guns from the fort. However, some of Herkimer's officers were not so patient, and at the morning's officers meeting they argued for the militia to advance without waiting for the signal guns from the fort. As tempers flared Herkimer was accused of cowardice and having Tory or loyalist sympathies (one of Herkimer's brothers was serving with army that besieged the fort). Finally, Herkimer's own temper got the better of him and he angrily ordered the militia to advance.
The militia moved in a column with an advanced guard followed by the 1st, 2nd, and 4th regiments, then the wagons. The 3rd regiment formed the rear guard.
Prior to setting out, the militia was joined by a small party of Oneida warriors from the village of Oriska.Unfortunately for the militia, St. Leger had been warned of their approach on August 5. He dispatched a force of around 700 men under command of to ambush the militia before they reached the fort. Comprising this force were 100 men of Johnson's King's Royal Regiment of New York, roughly 100 Indian Department Rangers, and 500 Indians; mostly. It is possible that some of the German riflemen and Canadian militia from St.
Leger's army joined Johnson's force as well; however there is no substantial documentation to support this idea. The spot chosen for the ambush was a deep ravine about six miles from the fort. British plans called for Johnson's troops to form on the eastern end of the ravine, while the Indians and rangers circled it on each side. Once the militia was bottled up at the bottom of the ravine a body of Indians and rangers under would attack their rear, cutting off any escape. The stage was now set for brother to fight brother, neighbor to fight neighbor, the peace that the Six Nations had shared for many years to be broken.Around 10 a.m., the Tryon militia began moving down into the ravine.
The main body halted at the bottom, waiting for the wagons to catch up, and many men took the opportunity to drink from a nearby stream. At this point some of the Indians, impatiently waiting for the signal to attack, rose up and attacked the militia. Quickly overrunning the advanced guard, the Indians attacked the main body of the militia but were thrown back with heavy losses. Partially following orders and partially through panic, the militia began to disperse throughout the woods as attacks came at them from all sides. Still on the opposite end of the ravine from the fighting, most of the 3rd Tryon panicked and fled when Brant's force attacked them. Many Indians left the scene of the ambush to chase after these fleeing men.
Only a small part of the 3rd Tryon would fight its way forward to join their comrades. Wounded in the leg early in the fighting, Herkimer had his saddle propped up against a tree, sat upon it, and continued to direct the Tryon militia. The battle had quickly developed into numerous individual fights, with small parties of men on both sides shooting at one another or locked in hand-to-hand combat. Had the battle continued in this fashion, it is likely the entire militia force would have been killed, wounded, or captured.At this point however, a violent thunderstorm broke out, forcing the combatants on both sides to seek shelter. This break in the fighting allowed Herkimer to gather his scattered troops into a tight defensive circle.
As the storm ended and the fighting resumed, Sir John Johnson sent a detachment of his regiment into the fight to reinforce the rangers and Indians. As former friends and neighbors faced each other the fighting became even more violent and bloody. A second detachment of Johnson's men, thought to have been, attempted to break through the militia lines by turning their coats inside out, hoping to be mistaken as a relief column from the fort.
However, members of the militia recognized their former loyalist neighbors and the ruse failed. Despite this failure, the loyalists had managed to breach the militia's defensive perimeter and disaster loomed. Since the dedication of monument, near the anniversary of the battle, hundreds of people including descendants, locals, historians, and others wishing to pay respects, gather to honor the memory of those that fought at the battle that fateful day in 1777.The monument was dedicated on August 6, 1884, designated a New York State Historic Site in 1927, and a National Historic Landmark in 1963.National Park Service Photo: Courtesy of Image House ProductionsIt was around this time that the Indians began to break off from the fight and retreat back to their lines around Ft.
Why this occurred is not certain, but most researchers have attributed it to two different causes. One is that the signal guns from the fort were heard above the fighting, soon followed by the sounds of gunfire from the British lines around the fort. Worried about the threat of a rear attack, the Indians began to return to the fort.
The second cause given is that the fight moved from an ambush situation into a regular pitched battle, and as Indian losses mounted they lost their enthusiasm for continuing the fight. In the end, it may have been a combination of both of these factors that caused the Indians to begin leaving the field of battle. Whatever the reason, a general retreat was eventually called for and the loyalists the Indians left the field. Badly mauled, the militia was in no shape to continue on to the fort. They gathered up as many wounded as they could and retreated back to Ft.
Dayton.The battle of Oriskany was devastating on both sides. Losses on the Tryon militia side may have been as high as 500 killed, wounded, or captured out of the 800 engaged. Casualties on the Indian and loyalist side were much lighter with around 60 Indians killed or wounded, and only a handful of loyalists being killed or wounded. Yet the losses they had suffered greatly demoralized them.
They had lost many prominent chiefs and warriors. Coupled with the emotional aspects of this loss, was the fact that they did not have a large population base from which to replace these losses. Their losses and the way they had been used in the battle also caused the Indians to reexamine their role in the siege. They had not joined the British force with the idea of bearing the brunt of any major fighting that came about, as had occurred at Oriska. As the siege wore on, the British would once again call on the Indians to be the main fighting force, and Indian enthusiasm for supporting the siege cooled considerably. In the end all these factors contributed to the Indians' desertion of the British army besieging Ft. This, in turn, forced Gen.
Leger to abandon the siege and retreat back to Canada. As for the Tryon Militia, the battle of Oriskany led to Gen. Herkimer's death and destroyed the Tryon County Militia Brigade as an effective fighting force for the remainder of the war. This made it impossible for the militia to effectively defend their settlements from the Indian and loyalist raids that would plague them for the rest of the war.
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