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		On unconfirmed reports in Great Andaman that unlike the Onges and the Great Andamanese, the Shompens who have so far shunned the civilised world, were keen to receive medical help now, he said IRC personnel were trying to verify them.
		The Shompens traditionally put out to sea early in the morning in their canoes and return before the sun gets hot.
		The Shompens roughly number between 150 and 200 but there has been no headcount in view of the inhospitable terrain they live in, and difficulties in making contact.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9803519&postID=110547052486404382 (678 words)

	Tribes of A & N Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Shompen huts are situated mostly on the hills where mud is not available and hence are invariably built with wood, cane and leaves.
		The stream water is used for drinking purposes in addition to other purposes like bathing, gardening etc. The floor made over the poles is used by the family and a portion of this room is used as a kitchen.
		For their food, Shompens mainly depend on forest and sea in addition to the foods they get from their gardens.
	icmr.nic.in /rmrcpb/links/tri/sho.htm (597 words)

	Andaman Nicobar Tourism : : Know Andaman > Indigeous Tribes
		The habitation of Shompens is the Great Nicobar which is the largest among the Nicobar group of Islands.
		They are quite intimate with the Nicobarese and of the major group of Shompens, the hostile Shompens are living in Alexendra and Galathia river areas and also on the east coast of the area in the interior of the Island.
		With the establishment of the settlement at Campbell Bay in Great Nicobar, Shompens have been visiting the settlers and they are gradually shaking off their shyness and indifferent attitude towards the civilised people.
	tourism.andaman.nic.in /tribal.htm (850 words)

	Central Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Early warning systems developed by their forefathers and adapted successfully by the tribals must have sent the first alarm signals and given them time to run for safety, he said.
		The Shompens, with a population of about 200, were the only Mongoloid tribe in the region while the rest were Negroids and had escaped the watery onslaught as they lived in the higher forest areas.
		However, the ASI was concerned about the earth eruption in the North Sentenelese island, home to the Sentenelese tribes, which had thrown up huge marine debris hitting the tribe's marine resources adversely.
	www.centralchronicle.com /20050104/0401012.htm (515 words)

	Indian authorities search for aboriginal tribe on remote islands. 30/12/2004. ABC News Online
		The Indian navy is hunting for a tribe of aborigines on the tsunami-savaged Nicobar islands amid fears that any harm to one of nature's most enigmatic communities could push them into extinction.
		"We don't know whether the Shompens are dead or alive but all our efforts to confirm they survived the tidal waves have failed and so we have launched this mission," the island's naval Chief Lieutenant, Rajendra Jamwal, told AFP.
		The hunter-gatherer Shompens, numbering just 250, live along riverbanks in the forbidding mangroves surrounding the settlement of Campbell Bay, 800 kilometres south of the Andamanese capital Port Blair.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200412/s1274291.htm (802 words)

	Andaman tribes evacuated -DAWN - International; 07 January, 2005
		Eight members of the tiny hunter-gatherer Shompen tribe were also flown out by helicopter after their settlement on Great Nicobar Island was submerged.
		He said aerial surveys suggested the rest of the nearly 400-strong Shompens, who lived in the forests and hills on the island, had survived the tsunami.
		Ghoshal said the Shompens, who almost never leave their island, have been kept in a special area in Campbell Bay Island to protect them from external influence.
	www.dawn.com /2005/01/07/int18.htm (440 words)

	Xt3 Christian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The enigmatic and reclusive Shompens have not been heard from since the disaster.
		"We don't know whether the Shompens are dead or alive but all our efforts to confirm they survived the tidal waves have failed and so we have launched this mission," the island's naval chief lieutenant, Rajendra Jamwal, told the Zambian Sunday Times.
		Although each new days brings fresh stories of horror, destruction, grief and suffering, one small positive is the global reaction and the willingness of many countries to commit money and resources to the relief effort.
	www.xt3.com /News/viewnews.asp?id=674 (409 words)

	Andaman tribals unaffected: Govt- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PORT BLAIR: The Andaman and Nicobar administration on Friday said all aboriginal tribes, including Onges, Jarawas, Sentinalese and Shompens, were unaffected by the tsunami, in spite of the apprehension of them having suffered casualties.
		The Shompens, numbering only about 150 live on Greater Nicobar Island in the extreme south located barely 115 nautical miles from the epicentre of Sunday's 8.9 magnitude temblor.
		But experts dealing with these tribes say the Onges, Jarawas and Shompens leave their homes in deep forests for the sea beach to catch fish and turtles in the early morning hours when the tsunami struck the island.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/976939.cms (467 words)

	A date with the Shompens - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Shompens were well built, tough, dark complexioned and hesitant to speak.
		Of the four Shompens two were wearing soiled vest and striped underwear.
		Their staple food was pandanus eaten with fish, turtle, pork etc. They either boiled or roasted fish over open fire and preserved food in utensils made of bark of some trees.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr262005/editpage1611342005425.asp (583 words)

	The Hindu : National : All primitive tribes safe
		The Negrito tribes were in the Andamans, which did not see the kind of devastation witnessed in the Nicobar islands.
		The tribes in the Nicobar islands were the Nicobarese, Shompens and the Holschu, who were all Mongoloids.
		The Shompens and the Holschu had not reported casualties.
	www.hindu.com /2004/12/31/stories/2004123106661100.htm (470 words)

	A people in peril
		(Apparently, the Great Andamanese were virtually driven to extinction by the British.) Of these four, the Shompens are said to be more primitive, who lead a nomadic life a nd do not encourage visits by outsiders to their huts which are situated deep in the jungles.
		Till recently, the ICMR and the health authorities were largely concerned with controlling leptospirosis, a zoonotic infection (spread from animal hosts and rodents are the primary reservoirs of the microorganism leptospira), which has a significant prev alence in the population of the islands.
		The prevalence rate among the Shompens was found to be the highest with 37.8 per cent.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1716/17160840.htm (2650 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		The Government would be sending teams to areas where the aborigines -- Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, Sentinelese, Shompens and Nicoborese -- live to make a factual assessment of their present status, a senior Home Ministry official today said.
		As many as 266 Jarawas in Middle and South Andamans were safe in their habitat and 32 Sentinelese were surveyed by the helicopter and a ship yesterday and are safe.
		A survey was being conducted to find out the condition of 398 Shompens in Great Nicobar though they had been seen in the island.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/002200412312026.htm (190 words)

	General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Six distinct dialects and languages are spoken in the Archipleago- one Car Nicobar, another Chowra, Teressa and Bompoka, together have one, the centre Islands of Kamorta, Nancowry, Trinket and Katchal speak a fourth, Little Nocobar and Great Nicobar with their adjacent Islands have a fifth.
		Lastly, the shompens who are also one of the Aboriginal tribe staying in interior part of Great Nicobar employ a speech that is different from the others.
		Then a section of the people in Island like Chowra and Shompens of Great Nicobar still profess their old religion of animism.
	nicobar.nic.in /lang_rel.htm (221 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CAMPBELL BAY — The Indian Navy is hunting for a tribe of aborigines on the tsunami-savaged Nicobar Islands amid fears that any harm to one of nature’s most enigmatic communities could push them into extinction.
		“We don’t know whether the Shompens are dead or alive but all our efforts to confirm they survived the tidal waves have failed and so we have launched this mission,” island’s naval chief lieutenant Rajendra Jamwal said.
		The hunter-gatherer Shompens, numbering just 250, live along riverbanks in the forbidding mangroves surrounding the settlement of Campbell Bay, 800km south of Port Blair.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=8827 (651 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 215 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The tribes living in the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands are Jarawas, Shompens, Sentinelese, Onges, Andamanese and Nicobarese, all of whom are considered the modern world's remaining links with the primitive civilisation.
		The fate of the 100-strong Shompens in Campbell Bay, which is closest to the epicentre of last Sunday's massive undersea earthquake, and the Sentinelese, inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, is not known, according to a spokesman of Indian Tribal Affairs Ministry.
		All bridges to the areas inhabited by Shompens and Sentinelese have been washed away and the authorities are relying only on boats to make survey of the places to ascertain their fate.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/12/31/d4123101055.htm (267 words)

	Devastation Threatens Tribes' Existence (washingtonpost.com)
		The most threatened, officials said, are the Shompens, a community of only about 250 people who live on the southeast fringes of the Great Nicobar islands, which lie at the closest point to the epicenter of the earthquake.
		Jamwal sent three naval boats to search for the Shompens on Wednesday on little-visited islands, but crew members detected no signs of human life in the dense forest.
		On Wednesday, Patlo Ma, a 55-year-old tribal coconut farmer, was one of the thousands who arrived at the airstrip on foot.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34880-2004Dec29.html (1141 words)

	Have we lost our only link to ancient civilisation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sources said that there were great possibilities that the Shompens, another endangered aboriginal tribe, being affected.
		The Lt Governor, who has constituted an 18-member team to assess the situation in the islands inhabited by the primitive tribes, said that a clear picture would emerge as soon as the team's report was received.
		But experts dealing with these tribes say that the Onges, Jarwas and Shompens leave their homes in deep forests for the sea beach to catch fish and turtles in the early morning hours when the tsunami struck the island.
	news.indiainfo.com /2004/12/30/3012tribes.html (471 words)

	The Hindu : Culture that survives time
		The Nicobarese and the Shompens of the Nicobar islands, have distinct cultures.
		While the Nicobarese live closer to the coast and have evolved into a sea-dependent people, the Shompens are forest dwelling.
		The Shompens of Great Nicobar, who have a history of raiding the Nicobarese in earlier times, remain a peaceable though elusive people of the isles today, their numbers stated to have dwindled due to disease.
	www.hinduonnet.com /lf/2003/11/03/stories/2003110307740200.htm (590 words)

	Tsunamis threaten reclusive aborigines on India's remote islands
		The hunter-gatherer Shompens, numbering just 250, live along riverbanks in the forbidding mangroves surrounding the settlement of Campbell Bay, 800 kilometres (500 miles) south of the Andamanese capital Port Blair.
		He was preparing for a land-launched rescue mission to save the Shompens.
		The origins of the endangered Andamans tribes, today only about 10 percent of the overall population of some 350,000, still mystify anthropologists.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/041230071724.94qvwzwh.html (1006 words)

	Guardian \| Escape for some, but Stone Age tribes' fate hangs in balance
		But at least two of the Stone Age aboriginal tribes that live on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been gravely affected by Sunday's giant tsunami, which ripped through the sprawling archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 3,000 people.
		Officials said they were sending messengers to some of the most remote islands, more than 16 hours away by boat, to ascertain who was left alive.
		The fate of the Shompens, meanwhile, a Mongoloid tribe who live on the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island, was not known, he added.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5093378-103681,00.html (1033 words)

	Anthrop guys to study damage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maintaining that suitable measures would be taken for the protection and well being of the tribal communities, it said "the package should be announced soon as per the assessment of the requirements of the different tribes".
		Meanwhile, government said that among the tribes to be hit hard were Nicobaris, Sentinelese, Shompens.
		"Nicobaris who are most prosperous among the communities inhabiting the islands number about 26,000 are feared to have been most badly affected," it said adding fate of Shompens who live in Cambell Day are not known as all bridges are broken.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/december/100470.htm (231 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		The Shompens (who have had one or two hostile sub-groups even ending up in internecine assaults) are also fairly shy, but some interaction with them has been established of late.
		As for the Shompens, while no deaths have been reported so far, no contact has been made either.
		The Shompens, spotting our personnel, may even be just running away." A similar attempt to reach the Sentinalese by a well-known resident anthropoligist Anstice Justine, who has reached them before, failed on December 30.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050206/spectrum/main1.htm (1757 words)

	Hepatitis B levels high among Indian Ocean tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Nicobar group of islands have the Nicobarese and the Shompens tribes, both of Mongolian descent.
		Among the Shompens, the seropositivity rate was 37.8% and among Onges, it was 31%.
		Co-author Dr. Subhash Chandra Sehgal, director of the of the Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC) at Port Blair, told Reuters Health that the prevalence of infection with hepatitis E virus is very high among the Shompens and hepatitis A virus infection is also prevalent among the tribes.
	archive.mail-list.com /hbv_research/msg01495.html (440 words)

	Debating India - Most Andaman tribals safe, claims Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Government today claimed that the fate of members of two aboriginal tribes - the Shompens and the Sentinelese - was not known while it had been able to establish contact with four other primitive tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
		According to the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the fate of the 100-strong Shompens, who live in Campbell Bay, and the Sentinelese, inhabitants of North Sentinel island, is not known.
		All bridges to these areas have been washed away and the areas have to be surveyed by boats.
	india.eu.org /2126.html (273 words)

	News For The Soul
		Shompens having a population of 157 live deep in the jungles of Great Nicobar Island.
		Jarawas, who live in the jungles of South and Middle Andaman were hostile till recently.
		But the Shompens and Sentinelese who took some direct hit, lost little because of their remote viewing capabilities.
	www.newsforthesoul.com /positive/print.php?sid=854 (701 words)

	Tribes of Andaman & Nicobar, Tribal Tours of Andaman, Onge Jarawa Tribes, The Great Andamanese, Visit Andaman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sentinelese are very hostile and never leave their Island that's why very little is known about this tribe.
		Shompens are very shy and are quite intimate with the Nicobarese and of the major group of Shompens.
		The hostile Shompens are living in Alexendra and Galathia River areas and also on the east coast of the area in the interior of the Island.
	visitandamans.com /tribes-of-andaman-and-nicobar-visit-andamans.html (928 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Tsunami concerns linger for India hunter-gatherers
		More than 7,500 people were killed or presumed killed after the waves slammed the island chain but officials are still struggling to get a fix on the impact on the primitive tribes.
		Justin said no firm contact had yet been made with the 175 to 200-strong Sentinelese, who live in almost total isolation on a tiny island in the Andaman group, but an official team was planning to visit them later this month.
		Experts said the government wanted to deflect media attention from its handling of the primitive tribal groups on the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and this could be one reason for the administration's comments.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MMQD-6ADRF6?OpenDocument (660 words)

	Survivors found in Andamans 38 days after Tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What makes this survival tale interesting is the fact that island’s aboriginal tribe, the Shompens helped them as the high tidal waves swept away their village Pilobhabi, located on the islands west coast.
		After disaster stuck them, they retreated from the coast and moved into the thick jungles, the home for Shompens.
		And they have been living with them for the past one month, till they had a chance encounter with the ‘civilised world, and were brought to Campbell Bay, the headquarters of the Great Nicobar.
	www.asiantribune.com /show_news.php?id=13287 (381 words)

	Stayfinder.com - Andaman & Nicobar Islands - The Tribes
		The Shompens are the only primitive tribe of Mongoloid stock.
		The east coast Shompens remain close to the sea-shore or in the valleys while the west coast Shompens prefer the interior and the slopes of hills.
		The Shompens huts are of a primitive type and are invariably built with wood, cane and leaves.
	www.stayfinder.com /travelguide/india/destinations/islands/andamanandnicobar/the_tribes (584 words)

	Earthquakes, tsunamis decay and disease Progressive Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Other shrinking tribes such as the Nicobarese and the Shompens derive from Mongoloid stock, and live primarily in the Nicobar chain.
		The Onges are said to be the happiest looking people of the world and the Jarawas are known for their unpredictable nature.
		The latest Census report says there are 266 to 270 Jarawas, 98 to 100 Onges, 150 to 200 Shompen, 200 to 250 Sentinelese, 20,000 Nicobarese and only 40 to 45 Great Andamanese that were alive before these tragedies occured.
	www.lahf.org /muse/item/earthquakes_tsunamis_decay_and_disease (1021 words)

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