Extinct: Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies

Which I found via the AOL News article Ancient Tribe Goes Extinct as Last Member Dies:

Marking the end of a language and an entire people, the last member of the Bo, an ancient tribe that lived in the Andaman Islands, has died.

When Boa Sr, as she was known, died last week, she was believed to be about 85 years old. Her husband had died years beforehand, and Boa, whose name means "land" or "earth" in the Bo language, had no children.

I remember the 2004 pictures of the Sentinelese tribesmen (not the Bo tribe, but another one of the Great Andamanese) that shot arrows at a passing helicopter. At the time it was believed an unknown tribe had accidentally been uncovered. It turned out that wasn't the case, but it was a find of more people from the ancient tribe who still lived and possibly even believed as their ancestors did.

I remember thinking how amazing it was, that something from so far in humanity's past - how we lived pre-civilization - still exists today! I remember the urge to want to protect them somehow. And the conflicting urge to want to help theoretically "better" their lives by bringing them modern medicine and knowledges. I still haven't personally resolved which would be better for them, though I believe it would be better for the world to let them exist without any interference. So we can learn from them instead of the other way around, and thereby learn about our past and ourselves.

The loss of any tribe, any peoples of the world, is sad. Perhaps even a tragedy as the loss of so many Native Americans on our own continent.