This gender specific violence also meant ensuring the dominance of the white race. In order to keep this maintenance going, a type of sterilization needed to happen. Women were the target; they give birth to Indian babies so settlers raped them to enhance the Caucasian race. As rapes continued and those products impregnated the children/girls of rapes, the Indian race wiped clean, becomes less and less dominant. The Indian body, already deemed dirtier than any other did, (Smith 9) supported the European settlers theory to eradicate Indians. This belief was so prevalent that in 1885 Proctor and Gamble produced a commercial for Ivory soap about how dirty Indians are and how necessary it is to clean them. The poem suggested that being Indian meant
