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The Native American Chief Who Drove Out Spanish Colonists and Nearly Expelled the English
The Ed Sheeran and Macklemore story has got me thinking about an Indigenous leader named Opechancanough. And I wonder how many young Opechancanoughs there are currently living in Gaza and the West Bank.
In 1561, Spanish explorers kidnapped a Powhatan Indian youth named Opechancanough and brought him to Spain to meet King Philip II. The King considered Indigenous peoples heathens and saw it as his sacred duty to convert them to Catholicism. They baptized him, educated him and gave him the name Don Luís de Velasco.
The king believed this intelligent young Indigenous man could help Spain convert…
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