the elder daughter of Mishosha

Role: Mishosha's daughter · First appears: Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 1

In “Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 1,” the elder daughter lived with Mishosha and her sister, managing their father’s household. Though she privately objected to his plan for her to marry Panigwun, she made no reply; Mishosha brought him to the island and declared him her future husband.

In Part 3, she and her sister took mortal shapes, agreed to become wives to the two young men, and left the enchanted island with them.

Relationship record

Life events

• The eldest daughter agreed to her father's plan to make the young man her husband, though she privately objected.(Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 1)
  • With: Mishosha
  • “But she made no reply, seeming thereby to acquiesce in her father's will.”
• Mishosha brought Panigwun to the island and declared him the eldest daughter's future husband.(Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 1 · 📍 the island)
  • With: Mishosha Panigwun
  • “Leading the young man up to the lodge, he addressed his eldest daughter. ‘Here,’ said he, ‘my daughter, I have brought a young man to be your husband.’”
• Mishosha's daughters took mortal shapes, agreed to marry the two young men, and left the enchanted island with them.(Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 3 · 📍 the main land)
  • With: Panigwun the younger brother of Panigwun
  • “They applauded the deed, agreed to put on mortal shapes, become wives to the two young men, and forever quit the enchanted island.”

Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 1

• parent: Mishosha “Here he lived with his two daughters, who managed the affairs of his household.”
• recipient: Panigwun “They told him to wait until their father was asleep, then to get up and take his canoe, and using the charm he had obtained, it would carry him quickly to his brother.”

Mishosha; or, the Magician of Lake Superior · Part 3

• parent: Mishosha “But the elder daughter informed the young man that unless he sat up and watched the canoe, and kept his hand upon it, such was the power of their father, it would slip off and return to him.”
• married with Panigwun (One of Mishosha's daughters becomes a wife to one of the two young men; the text does not specify which.) “They applauded the deed, agreed to put on mortal shapes, become wives to the two young men, and forever quit the enchanted island.”

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