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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic=""><o:p></o:p>Some say they came from the northern parts of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, but true evidences are still not found. They don’t know there is one more world outside there world. Modernity scare them development surprise them. Where they came from? No one knows until now. People may dispute they came up to South East Asia brought from Africa according to the continental drift speculation, few may say their ancestors were trading slaves being shipwrecked on the beautiful shores of Andaman Islands. Off course it’s correct that all ships from Africa and <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> to <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> were to pass through <st1:place w:st="on">Andaman islands</st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic="">They are self reliant and don’t require anything from outside there human race. The fifth group is still not confirmed by the authorities, nevertheless Andaman & Nicobar Islands consist of 5 tribal Groups, still following their only one of its kind civilization and ethnicity and resisting the wave of modernity and development. They are : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic="">When spoken to them they said they felt the earth quivering, they thought it’s the anger of there gods on the mankind, which has made them see this situation. Around 2,00,000 estimated dead in the Tsunami of 26th Dec 2004 . Andaman and Nicobar is made up of<span style=""> </span>nearly 600 small, tiny and big islands in the <st1:place w:st="on">Bay of Bengal</st1:place>. Nonetheless they are a part of <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> , physically, they are closer to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Burma</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Thailand</st1:place></st1:country-region> than to the Indian mainland. They are grouped here with <st1:place w:st="on">South India</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic="">The aboriginal tribes — some of the oldest and most cut off in the world — have oral traditions apparently developed from previous earthquakes that may have allowed them to escape to higher ground before the massive tsunami struck the island chain off Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic="">They were antagonistic till 1998 however now they are coming out of their habitats to mix with the local people. Remote from the cultured world, Jarawas appear to be healthy with smooth skin, deep curly hair, long and sturdy hands and legs and sturdy bones and are bodily fit for hunting and fishing. This nomadic tribe is certainly not welfare-dependent and manages to exist on hunting, fishing and gathering activities. Their traditional food consists of wild boar, turtles and their eggs, crabs, fruits.<br />
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Recently turned friendly, Jarawas do not have canoes but use rafts to cross the streams. Administration stretched their hands to this tribe in 1974 and befriended them with gifts of bananas and coconuts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" century="" gothic="">While they have motivated over to the up to date food cooked with spices, they still go for hunting and jamboree at times and their traditional food items consists of fish, dugong, turtle, turtle eggs, crabs, roots and tubers along with pork, Andaman water monitor lizard, octopus, molluscs taken out from shelled marine life such as turban shell, scorpion shell, sundial, helmet, trochus and screw shell and various types of crabs. Today, these people indulge in cultivating vegetables and poultry farming.<br />
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One of the most primitive tribes in India that belongs to the Negrito racial stock, they have been relegated to the reserved pockets at Dugong Creek and South Bay of Little Andaman Island and have been quickly dwindling in statistics. The semi-nomadic tribes, completely reliant on environment for food, they are under the wing of management, which has provided them with concrete hut type houses, food, clothes, education and medicines. Their habitual food consists of turtle, fish, and roots.<br style="" />
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