Shawondasee

Role: older brother · First appears: Hiawatha; or, Manabozho · Part 2

Mudjekewis gave Shawondasee the South. In “Shawondasee,” one day on the plains, Shawondasee mistook dandelion seed-vessels for a woman and, jealous of his brother Kabibonokka, sighed them away; “the object of his affections had for ever vanished.”

In “Hiawatha; or, Manabozho · Part 2,” Mudjekewis is identified as Shawondasee’s father, and Shawondasee is one of Manabozho’s older brothers.

Relationship record

Life events

• Mudjekewis gave Shawondasee the south.(Shawondasee)
  • With: Mudjekewis
  • “to Shawondasee, the south,”
• Shawondasee mistook the dandelion seed-vessels for a woman and, jealous of Kabibonokka, sighed them away.(Shawondasee · 📍 the plains)
  • With: Kabibonokka
  • “This excited his jealousy toward his brother Kabibonokka, and he threw out a succession of short and rapid sighs--when lo! the air was filled with light filaments of a silvery hue, but the object of his affections had for ever vanished.”

Hiawatha; or, Manabozho · Part 2

• siblings with Manabozho “Your brothers are the North, East, and South, and, being older than yourself, your father has given them great power with the winds, according to their names.”
• parent: Mudjekewis “Your brothers are the North, East, and South, and, being older than yourself, your father has given them great power with the winds, according to their names.”

Shawondasee

• parent: Mudjekewis “To his son, Wabun, he gave the East; to Shawondasee, the south, and to Kabibonokka, the north.”
• siblings with Kabibonokka “This excited his jealousy toward his brother Kabibonokka, and he threw out a succession of short and rapid sighs--when lo! the air was filled with light filaments of a silvery hue, but the object of his affections had for ever vanished.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.