Thanks freda. You saved me some work.

I am a really cynical bastard when I read this "Noble Savage" stuff.

That term, "Noble Savage" and the concept behind it, really is one of the more reprehensible and racist things the Europeans have used to lable what was a civilization made up of human beings just like you and me. But it was necessary to tar them with lables like "savage" in order to justify the campaign of genocide that the Europeans waged against them in order to take all of their land. I'd say it was the Europeans who were the savages in this case.

And now look at their legacy. They (we) haven't really learned much of anything since then. Just killing and more killing. Waste and more waste. And pissing in the drinking water (metaphorically speaking). The native North Americans at least knew that you shouldn't piss in your drinking water.