Indian that is acquiring information for native (8)

I believe the answer is:

indigene

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'native' is the definition.
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'indian that is acquiring information' is the wordplay.
'indian' becomes 'indie' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'that is acquiring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'information' becomes 'gen' (gen is a kind of information).
'indie' going around 'gen' is 'INDIGENE'.

'for' acts as a link.

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