The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends

the younger sister (White Feather legend)

Role: daughter of a chief · First appears: Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 2

In Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 2, the younger sister and the eldest sister (White Feather legend) are rival daughters of the chief (White Feather legend). She invites White Feather—an enchanted dog—into her lodge, gives him a good bed, and treats him as if he were her husband. In Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 3, she follows him into the forest as his faithful wife.

Relationship record

Life events

  • The younger daughter followed White Feather into the forest after he set out with her.(Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 3)
    • With: White Feather
    • “taking his war-club in his hand, led the way into the forest, followed by his faithful wife.”

Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 2

  • siblings with the eldest sister (White Feather legend) “There was an Indian village at some distance, in which there lived two girls, who were rival sisters, the daughters of a chief.”
  • rivals with the eldest sister (White Feather legend) “There was an Indian village at some distance, in which there lived two girls, who were rival sisters, the daughters of a chief.”
  • parent: the chief (White Feather legend) “There was an Indian village at some distance, in which there lived two girls, who were rival sisters, the daughters of a chief.”
  • recipient: White Feather “The younger invited the enchanted dog into her lodge, and made him a good bed, and treated him with as much attention as if he were her husband.”

Tau-wau-chee-hezkaw; or, the White Feather · Part 3

  • parent: the chief (White Feather legend) “Meantime, the elder daughter had reached her father's, and told him of the manner in which her sister supported a dog, treating him as her husband, and of the singular skill this animal had in hunting.”
  • married with White Feather “Meantime, the elder daughter had reached her father's, and told him of the manner in which her sister supported a dog, treating him as her husband, and of the singular skill this animal had in hunting.”

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