How do people know the names of uncontacted tribes if they’re uncontacted/speak a language foreign to most people?
In: Culture
Naming is done by the finder not the found. For your reference, the naming of all indigenous people of North America and their diverse peoples and cultures as “Indians”.
Lots of ways:
1. uncontacted tribes often know of the outer world, and people leave.
2. uncontacted tribes are often known to other tribes.
3. names are assigned by the discoverer, not the tribe themselves.
4. they are sometimes not truly uncontacted – e.g. past generations did make contact, but then they are left alone.
They’re just given one. Usually by the person/group who found that they existed to begin with
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