No, I don't. If I were a novelist or a film-maker, I certainly would go for
it,
because the interpretive and narrative prospects are indeed fascinating.
My reasons for being a nay-sayer are: (1) if Opechancanough was Don
Luis and had seen much of the Spanish world and works before slaying
Jesuits in the Chesapeake, I can't believe he would have allowed the
English to finish their first fort (or to play second-fiddle to Powhatan for
that matter); and (2) he was too perceptive to need any European back-
ground /"instruction" for opposing the English assaults on the soils and
souls of Tsenacommacah.
Best Wishes,
Fred Fausz
St Louis
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