What Does Wild Indian Mean?

Ishi lived in the hills with others, therefore, he remained undetected (Kroeber 13). I don’t think the term wild Indian should be used, especially in 1961. He decided to live in the woods, and it doesn’t mean that Ishi doesn’t know how to act according, as the term wild implies. Many people get attached to an area. It’s a comfort thing, and it’s familiar, to be attached to something. In a familiar surroundings, people know what to expect. The amount of different languages in California tell us that many tribes have been settled there for a while. They’ve been there long enough to make a new language to communicate with each other. Glottochronology is a term that describes how words change meanings (Kroeber 16). They rationalized referring to