Who is The Real Savage?

In Chief Seattle's letter to President Pierce in 1855 he referes to himself many times as a "redman" or a "savage." This is ironic because the actual definition of the word savage is "one that is uncivilized, not domesticated, or wild." Though out his letter he prides himself as well as his people as friends of the earth and as people who are interested in securing a future for his children while he also says that the white Americans treat the land as an enemy, taking what they want and leaving the land scared and empty. He was using this as a hidden type logos. Though he never addresses it directly he is defending he and his people through sarcasm. He makes the reader stop and think who really should be called the savage. Should it be the men that advance themselves and their kind at the expense of the earth or should it be the men that live in harmony with the earth and better themselves while keeping equilibrium?