John Allen Chau

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1. When was John Allen Chau born?December 18, 1991
2. Where was John Allen Chau born?USA
3. When did John Allen Chau die?November 17, 2018
4. What is the location of incident?North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal, India
5. What is the tribal group?Sentinelese
6. Who was John Allen Chau?John Allen Chau was a young American missionary born in 1991 who wanted to share his Christian faith with people who had never heard it.

Evangelical Christian: A Protestant Christian who emphasizes the authority of the Bible and the need for personal conversion.
Uncontacted Tribe: An indigenous people who have had little or no contact with the outside world.
Self-determination: The right of a people to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.
Cultural Relativism: The principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.