[Dave25984]

Stole this from straightdope.com This whole thing is so ironic it’s an instant cure for pernicious anemia. ‘Indian’ was once used by the white man as an all-purpose adjective signifying ‘bogus’ or ‘false,’ owing to the supposedly low morals of the red man. Thus you had ‘Indian summer,’ false summer late in the year; ‘Indian corn’ and ‘Indian tea,’ cheap substitutes for products the original colonists had known back in England; and ‘Indian giver,’ someone who gives you something and then takes it back. But of course Europeans were the real Indian givers, repeatedly promising the Indians reservations by treaty and then stealing them back once valuable farmland or minerals were found. The term has thus inadvertently become an acid commentary on the character of its inventors. I think it’s poetic hope this helps

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Name : Dave25984, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 24, City : Fort Worth, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : U.S. Marine, Education level : Technical School, 

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