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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, Opechancanough’s name does roughly translate into ‘He whose Soul is White.’


32 posted on 07/03/2017 6:42:55 PM PDT by Malcolm Reynolds
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To: Malcolm Reynolds

That continues the controversial legend. Being the half brother of the historical Chief Powhatan, his soul was legendarily white because he was the product of rape himself, at the hands of a Spanish missionary. Opechancanough is also believed to have been Don Luis de Velasco, on a somewhat related note. Fascinating man who was basically written out of most history because of his slaughters at Jamestown, pretty reviled because of that but there are also those who recognized him as brilliant in many ways, multilingual, quite the politician, very advanced military strategist for that time. He did hate the colonists, wanted them to leave but it escalated.


39 posted on 07/03/2017 6:49:29 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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