Manifest

Frontiers aren't empty. But they never were.
The basic concept that the West was Won
Requires it to be won from someone;
The New World's only new if you refer
To those who didn't know it. It's a slur
To those who did: implies that they are un-
Or less-than-human, because everyone
Who mattered was a connoisseur
Of only other lands. Columbus came
And with him death. Plagues and guns will kill
But even then the land is never void.
The bodies of the people thus destroyed
And even more those who survive it still
Deserve a presence, power, and a name.