“Curiosity or Confrontation? YouTuber’s Bold Attempt to Reach World’s Most Isolated Tribe – with a Shocking Gift!”
While some people who contact isolated tribes escape with their lives — like Polyakov, and like Steve Campbell, a U.S. missionary, who inadvertently passed through the territory of Brazil’s isolated Hi-Merimã tribe in 2019 — their actions can be terribly dangerous to the tribes themselves. Outsiders can bring diseases like the flu or measles, which could be devastating to uncontacted tribes who have no vaccinations or natural immunity.
“It beggars belief that someone could be that reckless and idiotic,” Survival International, a group that protects the rights of Indigenous peoples, said in a statement about Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov’s arrest. “This person’s actions not only endangered his own life, they put the lives of the entire Sentinelese tribe at risk. It’s very well known by now that uncontacted peoples have no immunity to common outside diseases like flu or measles, which could completely wipe them out.”
After reading about American YouTuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov and his attempt to contact the isolated Sentinelese tribe, discover the stories of fascinating tiny islands around the world. Then, learn about Tristan Da Cunha, the most isolated island on Planet Earth.
