Buddy there's enough room to fit that moniker on everyone, white, black, red, etc. I don't think you can put it on any one group more than another. I don't think there's any way the Indians can escape the label of savage. LIke I said before, they weren't just hanging out weaving daffodil necklaces for each other until Whitey came along. They were eating each other alive.

I'm not sure I quite "get" your noble savage stance, but I do have to say that the Indian, in the act of being savage, was not noble.

Virginia Dare. Wonder if they just murdered her, or if they made her do topless jumping jacks after they pulled her out of her cabin.