The dehumanization of Native Americans strengthened the biased laws that were criminalizing Native Americans, which lead to the Native American’s land being colonized by white settlers. As we see what happens in modern day, Native Americans have been colonial subjects to whites and this can be seen in the TedTalks video “America’s native prisoners of war.” Their tribal land was reduced to a poverty distressed area, where alcoholism and drugs occurs, the buildings are under-serviced and not remodeled, the people are dealing with health conditions, and ultimately are put into segregated spaces that are parallel to concentration camps and ghettos. Indigenous continue to suffer from disproportionally high rates of poverty, health problems, crime
