Roatan Campbells' Connection

Today is the Day of the Indian Lempira in Honduras.  I know so much more about Lempira than I knew two weeks ago.  Apparently, Lempira’s greatest claim to fame is not that the currency in Honduras is named for him.  (One lempira is approximately five cents.)  Lempira was an Indian* chief of great renown.  He unified more than 200 Indian tribes that had been ancient revivals in an effort to expel the Spanish from Honduras.  Lempira had much success until 1537, when according to tradition, he was called to a peace conference with the Spanish war leader and during the talks, obviously going poorly for the Spanish, Lempira was betrayed and felled by an arrow in the forehead.  Following the death of their brave leader, the native warriors scattered, and the rest is in the history books. (*I am using the word Indian, because that is the term used by the people when they speak of the indigenous people of the country.)  In ALFA school where some of...