7 Most Isolated Humans On The Planet

2. The Pintupi Nine

The Pintupi Nine were a group of nine Pintupi people, who were one of the last isolated Australian Aboriginal groups, who were hailed as "the last nomads" when they ran into a white guy in the desert in 1984 and hit the headlines.

They were a family group that were left behind in the desert when the rest of the Pintupi people were moved from their ancestral home by the Australian government in the 60s, who decided that testing bombs in the desert was much more important. Most of them moved to the fringes of the desert, but some were taken for "reeducation" before they could be assimilated into white society, which sometimes involved removing thousands of Aboriginal children from their families and putting them into religious institutions or foster care (and, white people, WTF?). These are known as the Stolen Generation.

The Pintupi Nine escaped this program and continued to live a nomadic lifestyle, unaware of the presence of white people in Australia. After the father of the group died, they set out to make contact with their relatives and, after a shaky start, became the final Australian aboriginals to enter the modern world.