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    Jessica Simpson has outraged some in the Native American community for using a racial stereotype.
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    Jessica Simpson has outraged some in the Native American community for using a racial stereotype.

    Few days back, TMZ.com had asked Simpson if she would be taking back the expensive boat she bought for ex Tony Romo. Her reply? "I'm not an Indian giver," reports Us magazine.

    "I am shocked she said that. I didn't know people still said that," one person wrote on the website, theforumsite.

    "She will be apologizing ... there is outrage,” the person added.

    Added another TMZ.com commenter: "I'm a Native American and I cringed when I heard Jessica Simpson comment about us Native Americans. Am I mad!?! I should be, but look at who the comment is coming from."

    A third said: "As a Native American, in particular a Dakota, I find those comments quite sad and stereotypical. But not surprising, if you look who said them."

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    Jacqueline L. Pata, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, told Usmagazine.com that besides Simpson many other people use the word in a derogatory sense.

    The concept of Indians giving and sharing with one another is where the term originated, she explains, but has somehow morphed into an insensitive phrase that stereotypes

    "Most people flippantly use the comment ''Indian giver'' without realizing its true meaning,” Pata said.

    I am tired of it too.By: Polinsensitive | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward I am tired of people using the term sauerkraut to describe a food dish. As an American of German descent, I wish the chefs' of the world would stop trying to denigrate me by implying that I look or smell like rotten cabbage!
    Oh pleaseBy: chuck | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward Come on people, why are looking for something to be "offended" about? Put your energies into something that will better your station in life. That goes for ALL people who sit and whine about something somebody said that doesnt amount to a hill of beans.
    stop being insultedBy: truthBtold | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward Would minorities please stop being insulted over stupid things so they can feel insulted and play at being a victim? It is a term to denigrate the white man's faithless practices of old against the TRIBAL American, or as it was at the time, TRIBAL non-American.
    Something else to consider.....By: Kimberly | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward There was something else in this story that boiled my apples. When asked if she was going to apologize for her comment Jessica's rep told the press simply "my client would like to let everyone know that she is one quarter Cherokee". REALLY!! 1/4 Cherokee, that would mean that one of her parents is half Cherokee and that would make one of her grandparents full blooded Cherokee (and if anyone has ever had to sit through her "Behind the Music" they would know that is completely false). I find it funny and a bit sad that when painted into a "racial" corner people choose to pull out mythical bloodlines to justify their remarks.
    You're right, Brandon, they're morons!By: wnaegele | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward "Indian giver" does not refer to Indians, native Americans or whatever the current term is. It refers to the white men, usually government officials, who made Indians/native Americans promises of all types -- only to renege on them. Before running off at the mouth, know what the hell you are talking about! This incident certainly makes it clear that stupidity knows no racial bounderies...
    wnaegele is correctBy: SotR | 04-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward I was also going to point out that this is a derogatory term towards whites not native Americans. I took no offense at all to the term (I do have Cherokee blood in my veins), primarily because I know what the term means
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