Another legend relates that the name is derived from the name of the Iroquoian chief "Sherando" (Sherando was also the name of his people), who fought against the Algonquian Chief "Opechancanough", ruler of the Powhatan Confederacy (1618–1644). Opechancanough liked the interior country so much that he sent his son "Sheewa-a-nee" from the Tidewater with a large party to colonize the valley. Sheewa-a-nee drove Sherando back to his former territory near the Great Lakes. According to this account, descendants of Sheewanee's party became the Shawnee. According to tradition, another branch of Iroquoians, the "Senedo", lived in present-day Shenandoah County. They were exterminated by "Southern Indians" (Catawba or Cherokee) before the arrival of white settlers.