Uncommon Commentary #516: I Wish that I Were Civilized Enough to Think up a Title for This Posting

Any people living at the level of civilization that anthropologists have named "savagery" qualify as savages, and so it's not necessarily an insult to refer to Nineteenth-Century American Indians by that term.  This is another example of why one ought to take the time to consult a dictionary before getting indignant over words.  (See UC #145.)