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indian giver

Posted by Angie engelhardt on July 11, 2000

I've always known an indian giver to be someone who gives something and then takes it back.
origin: white man "giving" land to natives...until they wanted to take it over later and push them off
it again.
This is different than the definition and origin given... Have I been mistaken?

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