This mentality comes from the idea of ​​profit. This was evident when white workers decided to define African/Native Americans as “colored” and define the amount of wages they should receive. Race was one way to maximize profits through recognition of cheap labor and the value of Black/Native Americans to society. By placing the labels of “colored” or “free man,” he prolonged the notion of “white” through the recognition of those who had independence and freedom over those who did not. The focus was not just on work as it also focused on ownership and the imposition of power on whites and powerlessness towards “others”. In Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr., a Native American author, discussed the notion of ownership as relating to the idea of ​​“whiteness.” Native Americans and everything they owned were considered property of the European settlers who discovered America. Like Deloria