http://www.csulb.edu/~aisstudy/woodcuts/wood.coll.set.1.html Notice the roads, cultivated fields, communal society and the food storage structures. All indicative of a high level of civilization.
Are these savages?
No.
One hundred years later or less, after the devastation caused by the plagues brought by the Europeans, all this was destroyed, and they were reduced to what appeared to be savagery.
It was mass starvation in reality.