My dissertation shows that the U.S. systematically employed its World War II Japanese American concentration camps to alienate indigenous peoples from their lands and convert them into exploitable labor. I draw on history, anthropology, literary studies, and archaeology to interrogate the power dynamics that exclude certain voices while privileging others—preventing us from understanding these histories as interrelated. Reading these histories together, I argue that race is only legible to the Settler State as exploitable labor, and that it used Japanese American incarceration to mold indigenous and other racialized bodies into this role.