Talk:Jarawas (Andaman Islands)

message: An interesting item on NPR this morning implied that the Jarawa had a 100% survival rate in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: somehow, they knew or sensed what was coming, and all headed for the upland jungle. The story related to fly-by checks by the Indian Air Force, so it could easily be exaggerated (how would they know it was 100%? How would they know what the Jarawa did to survive?). I'm not putting that in the article just on the basis of "I heard it on the radio", but someone may want to follow up on this. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:57, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Reports like this seem to be from folks who really don't know what they are talking about.  They want to assign natives with little or no contact with the modern world great wisdom for reasons that don't make sense.  I am not saying the natives are stupid or fools.  Just that like all humans, they are going to be running the gambit of dumb to very smart folks.  
The reason that a lot of these native groups survived is really quite simple.  These are groups of people who have choosen to not have much (if any) contact with the modern world.  Well, on these islands, where for example the Jarawa share their island with people from the modern world... guess where they live?  They live pretty much as far inland as you can get on these islands, while the folks from the modern world live on the coasts.  Now who do you think is going to die from the Tsunami?  That would be the people living on the coasts.  Those living inland, quite naturually, are living on higher ground and avoided the brunt of the catastrophe.  So, naturally, they lived through it.   --68.164.29.116 05:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, there were few deaths over the whole of the Andamans, indigenous and non-indigenous alike, when compared to the more low-lying Nicobars - about 60 all told, versus about 3500 for the Nicobars. True enough, the Jarawa live (and always seem to have preferred to live, before the Indian colonists came) mostly in inland regions, and are situated on the western (ie, the leeside) of the island. A similar tale was told about the remnants of Great Andamanese people, numbering about 50  who live on Strait I, off the eastern coast of Great Andaman - this is more exposed and low-lying, perhaps that original radio report confused the two.--cjllw | TALK 08:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anthropologists have spoken to the Onge to find out how they survived the Tsunami (It was initially expected that none would have survived due to their location). They were told that tradition tells that the land and sea are always fighting to decide boundaries. On the day of the tsunami the trees shook so the islanders knew the spirits were angry over something. Later they saw changes in the clouds and water so knew the sea was going to enter the jungle and mix with the land until the new boundaries were decided upon. The native tribes all went to high ground before the first wave arrived. It is suspected that none of the indiginous tribes that live traditionally lost anyone.  Wayne (talk) 14:11, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tsunami 

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message: I reverted undos made by user at IP 117.193.2.239 to my recent updates to the article. I had included information about an important court case regarding the situation of the Jarawa, and I had provided a citation for this. No reason seems to have been given for their removal by that user. Seriousmatters (talk) 11:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent changes - July 2009 

message: The following few sentences occur frequently in the article:
KEY CONCERNS : Change in food habits and introduction of addictives such as tobacco and alocohol
Intrusion of poachers into Jarawa Reserve for removing natural resources like wild pig, fish, crab, wood and honey. These intrusions often result in violent encounters.
Ongoing sexual exploitation of Jarawa women. In one case, a Jarawa woman was raped inside the GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair. In another case Jarawa woman was raped by two tribal welfare male staff.
However, I don't see any sources cited.  Also, the information is in some places poorly integrated into the sentence structure or topic of the surrounding text.  Note that some phrases are typed as sentences but do not follow the structure of a sentence.  Does this article need a header that it makes claims without sources cited?
64.101.158.211 (talk) 17:21, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated Statements (sometimes poorly added) without source 

message: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/Justin/art-justs.htm 
Based on the information on this page, it appears that the indigenous name for the "Jarawa" has been discovered: "Ung". Shouldn't we re-name the people, language, and disambiguation pages? InFairness (talk) 23:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change? 

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message: Please read this report, and  read and update Sentinelese and jarawa articles accordingly specially the dangers of contact including the oft ignored dangers posed by the erratic badly managed and poorly documently anthropological missions and settlers e.g. alcohol, tobacco, drugs, commercial and sexual exploitation. Thanks. 222.164.212.168 (talk) 07:40, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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message: What exactly is Quarry meant to mean in this sentence, it makes no sense at all?
"As the Jarawas are a nomadic tribe, they hunt endemic wild pigs, monitor lizards and other quarry with bows and arrows." IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 08:20, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
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