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For every Male Indian Enemy above Twelve Years Old who shall be taken Prisoner and deliver’d at any Forts garrisoned by the Troops in the Pay of this Province, or at any of the County Towns to the Keepers of the common Jails there, the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Spanish Dollars or Pieces of Eight;

For the Scalp of every Male Indian Enemy above the age of Twelve Years, produced as Evidence of their being killed, the Sum of One Hundred and Thirty Pieces of Eight;

For every Female Indian taken Prisoner and brought in as aforesaid, and for every male Indian prisoner under the Age of Twelve Years taken and brought in as aforesaid, One Hundred and Thirty pieces of Eight;

For the Scalp of every Indian Woman, produced as Evidence of their being killed, the sum of Fifty Pieces of Eight;

— Robert H Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania in the Declaration of WAR on the peoples of Delaware, April 14 1756

Manifest destiny can’t really be decolonized. It’s the ideology of a war of annihilation against the first peoples of the Americas, and everything it has ever stood for has stemmed from that. The land settlers rode those wheels too was only ever made available by the horrible murder of millions upon millions of Native Americans, and I’m going West they became the foot soldiers in that war. Manifest Destiny is American Lebensraum. You can’t “decolonize” it any more than you could Nazism and, for similar reasons, it’s a really really really bad idea to try.