Oweenee

Also known as: the faithful · Role: wife of Osseo; youngest of the ten daughters · First appears: XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 1

In Iagoo’s story, set in days no more remembered and told in XII · The Son of the Evening Star, Oweenee, the youngest of ten sisters, rejected her suitors and married Osseo. At a great feast, Osseo was restored to youth and beauty, while Oweenee was changed into a weak old woman.

In Part 2, Osseo’s father restored Oweenee’s youth and beauty. Many years at the Evening Star, she bore Osseo a son, “With the beauty of his mother, With the courage of his father.”

Relationship record

Life events

• In Iagoo's story, Oweenee rejected her suitors and married Osseo.(XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 1)
  • With: Osseo
  • “Only Oweenee, the youngest, Laughed and flouted all her lovers, All her young and handsome suitors, And then married old Osseo,”
• In Iagoo's story, Osseo was restored to youth and beauty, while Oweenee was changed into an old woman.(XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 1)
  • With: Osseo
  • “Thus Osseo was transfigured, Thus restored to youth and beauty; But, alas for good Osseo, And for Oweenee, the faithful! Strangely, too, was she transfigured. Changed into a weak old woman, With a staff she tottered onward, Wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly!”
• In Iagoo's story, the father of Osseo restores Oweenee’s youth and beauty.(XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 2)
  • With: the father of Osseo
  • “Then returned her youth and beauty, And her soiled and tattered garments Were transformed to robes of ermine,”
• In Iagoo's story, Oweenee bears Osseo a son.(XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 2 · 📍 the Evening Star)
  • With: Osseo the son of Osseo
  • “And fair Oweenee, the faithful, Bore a son unto Osseo,”

XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 1

• married with Osseo “And then married old Osseo, Old Osseo, poor and ugly,”
• siblings with the eldest sister “‘Listen!’ said the eldest sister, ‘He is praying to his father!”

XII · The Son of the Evening Star · Part 2

• child: the son of Osseo “And fair Oweenee, the faithful, Bore a son unto Osseo, With the beauty of his mother, With the courage of his father.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Hiawatha. Made with Rho MD.