This is ardent collector Abrahams. Thx for the kind words about Deep the Water. It is in print, incidentally, from the folks at the Mystic Museum.

Shenandoah, though both a river and a valley beautiful, nevertheless is the Indian chief, Skenandoah, an Iroquois (Seneca, I think) chief famed for being a great speaker during the Condolence Ceremony who sent Molly Cooper to the soldiers at Valley Forge with a load of Indian corn. You can google that many ways to get the Iroquois version of the story.