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Spanish language and still remember their native tongue. Wahunsonacock is believed to have been born about 1547. John Smith estimated that he was born in 1547, while
William Strachey thought he could have been born as early as 1527. Therefore, Wahunsonacock was either older than or of the same age as Don Luis. Additionally, the Powhatan Indians were a matrilineal society, Wahunsonacock explained to the English that he inherited his right to rule from his mother, and that his siblings, not his own children, would succeed him. Based upon this, it is believed that the chief before Wahunsonacock was likely his uncle, but certainly not his father.
262:, wanted to establish a mission in AjacĂĄn without a military garrison, which was unusual. One of the chief stumbling blocks to converting the Natives to Christianity at other locations had been the often deplorable conduct of the colonial soldiers. On garrison duty, not challenged by the prospect of fighting, they were apt to seek an outlet for their boredom in drunkenness, thievery, bullying and sexual license. Despite concerns about the plan's feasibility, Father Segura eventually obtained permission from his superiors for the founding of the new
98:, in an effort to expel them. The Virginia anthropologist Helen C. Rountree has suggested this is an unlikely coincidence, arguing that the Virginia Indians may have claimed otherwise "in an attempt to disavow their association with Opechancanough, whose memory was still so detested by the English due to the attack of 1622." Alternatively, Don LuĂs may have been the father of Powhatan who had arrived from Spanish dominion in the West Indies according to English accounts.
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Alonso de Olmos' survival and was able to secure the boy's return. After gaining a fuller picture of the massacre from Olmos, MenĂ©ndez de AvilĂ©s attempted to use other natives as hostages to bargain for the hand-over of Don LuĂs. Don LuĂs did not turn himself over to the Spanish.
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413:"Thirdly they should at all times be ready and willing to furnish vs with three or foure hundred bowmen to aide vs against the Spaniards, whose name is odious amongst them, for Powhatans father was driuen by them from the west-Indies into those parts..."
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