AWWW! HELL NAH! TRIBE MADE TO DANCE FOR FOOD!

Human rights groups are outraged over a video of tourists coercing women from India's Jarawa tribe to dance in exchange for food.

The undated video, shot in India's Andaman Islands, came to light when Britain's Observer newspaper posted it Saturday.

The footage shows young women from the endangered tribe hopping and clapping as a man commands them to dance, reminds them he’s given them food and promises that more food is on the way.

The Observer identifies him as a policeman who allegedly accepted about $300 from a tourist in exchange for the performance. The Andaman Police Department issued a statement disputing that the man was a policeman.

An Observer journalist also reportedly witnessed tourists throwing bananas and biscuits at the tribespeople on a recent visit.

Photographing the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is forbidden under Indian laws designed to protect indigenous groups, The Associated Press reported. India's Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has called for a probe of the incident.

Although it's unclear when the video was taken, officials say the clip is several years old. Andaman's Director General of Police Samsher Deol estimated the video may be six or seven years old.

Survival International, an organization that advocates for tribal peoples, denounced the video.

"This story reeks of colonialism and the disgusting and degrading ‘human zoos’ of the past," Director Stephen Corry said in a press release. "Quite clearly, some people’s attitudes towards tribal peoples haven’t moved on a jot. The Jarawa are not circus ponies bound to dance at anyone’s bidding.

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