Savages decision is an insult to native Americans. Clearly the logo was to honor the chief, and it was gifted to Arthur Savage.
I would love to see the descendants of Chief Lame Deer, or his tribe, protest this decision and demand a return to the original logo and to the honor it represented.
While that story sounds nice, and is on their website, it doesn't really make sense to me. They say Chief Lame Deer came to work with Savage in 1919. I had a Savage 1907 pistol, made in 1911 IIRC, with the same logo.