Carl Bridenbaugh is one of the historians who have speculated that Don Luís was the same person as Opechancanough , younger half-brother ( or close relative ) of the Powhatan ( Wahunsonacock ) , paramount chief of an alliance of Algonquian-speakers in the Tidewater . Opechancanough succeeded to the post of paramount chief and led two noted attacks on Jamestown settlers , one in 1622 and another in 1644 , 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 . " During the sixteenth century , the Indians in Tidewater Virginia were Algonquian-speakers . They lived in towns and villages located along the rivers feeding the Chesapeake Bay , and were ruled by chiefs , or '' weroances '' that were part of the Powhatan confederacy
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Indian massacre of 1622
Don Luis