Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka

"But Latara, I do chores. Training to lead the tribe one day is a big responsibility."

- Princess Kneesaa

Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka was the Princess of Bright Tree Village, daughter of Chief Chirpa and Ra-Lee, and younger sister to Asha. Later, she became the Chieftess of Bright Tree Village and wife of Wicket Wystri Warrick. In her youth, she was part of the same circle of friends that included Wicket, Paploo, Teebo, and Latara. The young Ewoks had many adventures on the forest moon of Endor, involving such creatures as Gupins, Yuzzums, Duloks, and Morag the Tulgah witch.

The childhood
"Now what are you up to?" "Oh, just humming a lullaby my mama would sing to my sister and me."

- Urgah and Princess Kneesaa

When Kneesaa was just a wokling, she, her mother, and older sister were attacked by a hanadak in the forest. When Chief Chirpa came later, only Kneesaa remained; Ra-Lee was dead and Asha was missing. So Chirpa raised Kneesaa by himself. But despite growing up an only child, and frequently wishing she could see her sister again, Kneesaa was not lonely.



As Kneesaa grew up, she became close friends with Wicket, Teebo, and Latara. More mature than her three friends, she frequently advised them when they were getting themselves into in trouble or embarking on foolish adventures. The blue gem on Kneesaa's hood was a gift given to her by Asha on the day she disappeared. Kneesaa wore the gem on her pink hood during much of her youth.

The first attack of Phlogs
On one occasion, when Kneesaa and Wicket were picking berries in the forest, they stumbled upon two creatures attempting to cut down the forest's trees. When the two got back to their village, they told Chief Chirpa of the giants, which they learned were called Phlogs. Wicket later recounted the story before the Council of Elders, an opportunity he had never had before. Unsatisfied with the decision of the Council, the young Ewoks turned to the shaman Logray, who told them the history of the Phlogs of Simoom and what a threat they posed. Logray gave them a white powder which they were able to use on the Phlogs to make them run back to their own land and leave the Ewoks' forest alone. During the celebration that day, both Wicket and Kneesaa were made honorary members of the Council of Elders.

The midsummer festival
The annual midsummer festival was another special time for the Ewoks, as they would participate in contests to show what they could do best. Wicket encouraged Kneesaa to enter the basket-weaving contest, but she felt that she would rather enter a competition in which she wasn't so experienced. When she expressed interest in the archery contest, an event which Wicket intended to win, he revealed to Kneesaa his sexist views on females in athletics. When Kneesaa entered the contest anyway, Wicket continued to put her down and promote his chauvinistic viewpoint. Still determined, Kneesaa entered the vine-swinging contest and then inadvertently got herself into the dangerous Log Ride Contest, and won. This impressed Wicket, so much so that he apologized to Kneesaa, realizing that girls could in fact be good at sports. Kneesaa then suggested that Wicket might perhaps win the next year's basket-weaving contest.

Making magic potions
"Kneesaa, you're wonderful. You mixed a shrinking potion, not a sleeping one. We're saved."

- Wicket

During a Summer Season, the Duloks sabotaged a dam, trying to flood the forest and the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village and to destroy their trees. Chukha-Trok felled a gigantic tree, and it stopped the water, giving the Ewoks a change to repair the dam. But the sound of water echoed through a vast cavern beneath the forest floor, waking up a giant beast that was hibernating there for thousand of years. The Kradak opened a huge hole and appeared from the ground. The creature started to crash some trees with each swing of its terrible neck. Chief Chirpa was terrified, wishing that the Kradak could destroy the village, simply crashing the support tree.

The first shaman Logray ran to his hut, but a branch fell from a tree and knocked him as Kneesaa knelt over him. When she realized that Logray wasn't seriously hurt, she darted into the shaman's hut. The Princess watched Logray mixing some magic potions, and tried to make one than could be used against the Kradak. When Kneesaa finished a first potion, she ran out, clasping a bowl of steaming green liquid. But while she was still on the high level of the village, Kneesaa stumbled, splashing the potion over all the Ewoks on the ground fighting the beast. That was a sleeping potion. Every Ewok became unconscious, except Kneesaa and her friends Wicket and Teebo.



Quickly, Princess Kneesaa returned to Logray's hut, made another potion (that was yellow) and returned to his two friends with the potion's bowl, flowing the liquid over the Kradak. The beast started to shrink, becoming smaller than an Ewok's hand. This time, Princess Kneesaa made a shrinkroot potion. Shortly after, the other Ewoks returned to their senses, Kneesaa and Wicket built a tiny cage for the little beast, and the couple and Teebo celebrated their victory.

Saved by Wicket and Teebo
Sometime after, Knessaa, Wicket and Teebo began to pick berries as a hobby. However, during one of these small events, Kneesaa stepped on the poisonous nightshade thorn. Immediately taking her to the village, it was announced that Kneesaa could only be saved if they had sunnydew nectar from the sunnydew flower&mdash;which Bright Tree Village was completely depleted of. Wicket and Teebo, learning of this, set out to find the nectar from the only available source, an Ogre named Gantu. They evetually were able to claim some nectar, although not from Gantu, and save Kneesaa.

Heiress of chieftain
"But, Logray! How can you defend what's yours and live the way you want to live without hurting anyone?"

- Princess Kneesaa

Soon after that, at a celebration for her birthday, Kneesaa received some very special gifts. One was a baby bordok whom Wicket and Teebo had spent many weeks training for her; she named him Baga. Another gift was one her father presented her: a ruling staff made from a branch of the Gemwood tree. Chirpa announced that if should anything ever happen to him, Kneesaa would become the new ruler of the village. This did not sit well with some of the elders; First Elder Kazak spoke out, saying that all Ewok leaders had always been men, and that "the leader of the Ewoks should at least be sturdy enough to carry a spear into battle!"



This deeply troubled Kneesaa, but she was given an opportunity to prove herself soon enough: when a group of Zorbian space pirates led by Captain Krag attacked the village to steal the Gemwood tree, she led the women and children Ewoks and defeated the Zorbians without even a single Ewok being harmed. Her father was very proud of her, as were Kazak and the other elders. They admitted that they were wrong and said that Kneesaa would be, and already was, a strong leader.

Mount Sorrow
"If he is worthy, I shall weep for him!"

- Mount Sorrow

When Teebo was put under the Perilous Laughing Spell, Kneesaa and Wicket soon learned that the only cure to reverse the unusual spell was the tears of the sentient mountain Mount Sorrow. After journeying with Wicket and Teebo to the mountain, they eventually were able to converse with the Mountain. After much trouble, Teebo decided that he would rather stay under the spell then risk something happening to his friends. Sorrow was very moved at this statement and wept for Teebo.

Helping Chief Chirpa to fight the Kreegon
"I just can't stay here and do nothing!" "But, Kneesaa, your father said..." "He said it was his duty to help our people! And it's my duty to help him... If I can!"

- Princess Kneesaa and Wicket

One day, Chief Chirpa departed alone to fight the Kreegon, a deceased, dangerous and big predator turned back to life by Morag's magic. After seeing the reborn monster through Logray's crystal image spinner, Princess Kneesaa decided to help her father. Wicket offered himself to go with her, and the two young Ewoks departed together. Some hours later, the couple found and freed Chirpa (who was trapped by Morag), and the three Ewoks departed to find the Kreegon.

The Kreegon was found destroying some trees and going to the Bright Tree Village. The predator was under Morag's sorcery, and didn't see the Ewoks calling him. So, Kneesaa threw Logray's amulet against the monster, making a explosion that attracted the monster's attention. The Kreegon started to persecute the three Ewoks. They followed Chirpa's plan: when they found Morag again, the three Ewoks jumped to escape from Morag's blast. The witch hit the Kreegon's eye, and the predator returned to be a skeleton. The Kreegon's bones covered Morag, and Chirpa, Kneesaa and Wicket went back home.

With the Fleebogs
"It's never too late! I hope!"

- Princess Kneesaa

Kneesaa proved her worth once again when she was shrunken and kidnapped by the Fleebogs. Despite the fact that she continued to shrink, she bested the ra-lugg beast and proved to the Fleebog that even small beings could handle big threats.

Morag's thorn monster
"Logray told us that too much water can be as harmful to a plant as too little!"

- Princess Kneesaa to Wicket

When the shaman Logray chose to take a short vacation, Kneesaa and Wicket helped him carry his things to his vacation spot and volunteered to take care of his herb garden back home. Wicket struggled with the gardening, claiming he was "a scout, not a farmer!" While Kneesaa warned him about over-watering the plants, Wicket spotted flashed of light from up in the tree huts. Once the duo reached the village, they saw that the witch Morag had come to destroy the Ewoks; she made a glowing thorn bush sprout from the ground which would grow stronger by drawing up all of the moisture from the ground, eventually killing the forest.



As Kneesaa and Wicket went to get Logray back to the village, they ran into Morag's beast. First, Wicket slowed the beast by pouring a large jar of honey over it, and then they used vines to tie it to a tree. They finally reached the shaman, but unable to escape from Morag's spell, Logray sent his staff with Wicket so that he might stop the growing thorn bush. Along the way, Wicket used the staff to freeze Morag's fang-faced beast in midair. When they reached the plant, Wicket tried to stop it with Logray's staff, but it was no use; Morag had transformed the plant into a giant walking thorn monster.

As the Ewoks fled, Wicket came up with a way to stop the monster. They headed toward the lake near the hot springs and jumped in for a swim. When the beast followed them into the water, it began expanding so rapidly that it finally exploded (according Kneesaa's advise about over-watering the plants), causing a rain fall over the forest.

Return of the Phlogs
"When you sing a lullaby, you sing a lullaby."

- Wicket to Princess Kneesaa

Princess Kneesaa and Latara were the first to spot the return of the Phlogs to the Ewoks' land. When Kneesaa recounted the tale to the Council of Elders, Wicket observed carefully. But at the same time, Teebo's younger sister Malani began expressing a romantic interest in Wicket. Later, with his close friends, Wicket mocked Malani and made clear his lack of interest in her. Kneesaa didn't show jealousy, but questioned Wicket's hard words about Malani. But the young Malani overheard from nearby and became deeply hurt. As the four teen Ewoks continued to play, a small munyip communicated to Teebo about Malani, and that she had run off into the forest.

Now concerned, the four went off to find Malani, which took a special urgency when the Phlogs suddenly on the rampage for some reason. During this, they were persecuted by the Duloks, but escaped. While Wicket and Teebo were alone, searching for Malani, Kneesaa and Latara told Chirpa and Logray about the new Phlogs' attack, who were claiming the Ewoks for their youngest son's lost. On the top of a steep rock, the four Ewoks were talking and watching the Phlogs, who were on the floor. Zut find the four Ewoks, and throwed some big stones against them, crashing the steep rock and making the girls to drop down there. But Logray used his magic to turn a tree like a giant hand, and it saved the two young Ewoks. Out of Phlogs' view, Kneesaa asked Latara to find Nahkee, the giant baby Phlog.

Some minutes later, Kneesaa and Latara were arrested by some Dulok scouts, and were taken to the Dulok swamp, where Wicket, Teebo, Malani and Nahkee were already arrested. Nahkee, it turned out, was merely a pawn in elaborate plot by Morag and the Duloks. The Ewoks, now held captive by King Gorneesh, plotted their escape, and Wicket apologized to Malani for hurting her feelings. Kneesaa started to hum a lullaby that her deceased mother sang to her and Asha some years early. Lady Urgah ordered Kneesaa to sing the same lullaby to the Duloks, and the young Princess started to sing with the sound of Latara's flute. So, Nahkee and all the Duloks slept. The Ewoks then succeeded in fleeing the Duloks and were able to reunite Nahkee with his parents, thereby foiling the Duloks' plot and having them suffer Morag's wrath.

Changing more traditions
"But, father, you have to let me go!" "The Sacred Dust is always be carried to the tree by young men." "Oh, but could the tradition change?" "I'm sorry, daughter. No."

- Princess Kneesaa and a conservative Chief Chirpa

Before a Light Festival quest to renew the Tree of Light, Kneesaa made more controversial topics of gender roles and traditions. The Princess asked to be the one to feed the Tree of Light, joining with Weechee and Willy Warrick, Teebo, and her cousin Paploo. But her father Chief Chirpa said that only male young Ewoks have done so in the past. When Kneesaa pleaded for the tradition to be changed, Chirpa refused.

Some hours later, Kneesaa, her sweetheart Wicket and her best friend Latara secretly joined the regular expedition to renew the Tree of Light, despite the fact that the three were forbidden because of their ages and the girls' gender. Fortunately, the trespassers acquitted themselves so well in the successful mission despite the dangerous opposition by the Duloks that they all not only escaped punishment, but were awarded Silver Feathers of Bravery as well.

The lucky rock
As the winter seasoned neared, a group of Ewoks (Kneesaa, Wicket, Weechee, Willy, Paploo, Teebo, and Latara) were sent off to barter for goods with the trader Mooth. Since Chirpa had warned not to waste the village's surplus on anything "foolish," Wicket had personally collected and polished a bag of monmon seeds to trade for his something of his own. Although the other Ewoks each had their own ideas as to what he should get, Wicket decided to trade for a "lucky" stone, which he gave to Kneesaa, since she was the only other one in the group who liked it. Wicket and Kneesaa were fallen in love each other.

The Ewoks soon found themselves short of luck when a group of Skandits separated them from the wagon of goods and imprisoned them. However, when the Traveling Jindas passed through and learned that their onetime member Latara was in trouble, the Jindas put on a show for the Skandits and helped the Ewoks escape. After, the Ewoks and the Jindas fled to Bright Tree Village.



Paploo and Weechee continued to deride Wicket about his lucky stone while Logray helped rid the Jindas of the Rock Wizard's curse which forced them to always be on the move. The Rock Wizard himself then showed up at the village in a destructive rage, but he was stopped when he saw Princess Kneesaa wearing her lucky stone—his missing tooth. Once his tooth was back in place, the Wizard was back to his jolly old self, and he called off the Jindas' curse. Chief Chirpa asked the Jindas to not forget Kneesaa's little help, and Wicket reminded Paploo and Weechee of their comments about the "stupid little rock."

Three lessons for a leader
"We can't destroy their home, Wicket, not even to save ours."

- Princess Kneesaa, about the Trome tree

As Kneesaa's friends partied at an afternoon dance, the Princess left her chieftess-to-be training lesson at Logray's hut to join them. But their dancing was cut short when an ever-growing stranglethorn began wreaking havoc and taking over the village. When Kneesaa realized she was to blame, she set off to gather the three ingredients Logray needed to tame the wild plant. Fearing for Kneesaa's safety, Wicket joined her in her journey.

The first ingredient was Keet nectar. Kneesaa had an idea: the duo could climb up the Keet's palace with leaf-shoes soaked by some kind of glue that was around the palace. Once inside the Keets' labyrinthine hive, the duo evaded the unfriendly Keets and discovered their stockpile of nectar pearls. Next, they learned from a bobber bird the proper way to retrieve a ganga root from the ground, and then had to flee with the last root so that the bird would not eat it. They needed to bore the root to extract its air inside and take it from the ground. And thirdly, Wicket spotted a Trome tree; however, the tree only had one branch left, and when the resident Tromes appeared, they pleaded with the Ewoks not to destroy their home. Knessaa then came up with a new plan, and Wicket instead carried the three Tromes on his shoulders back to the village.

At the village, Kneesaa used the shoes to climb a tall tree where the stranglethorn imprisoned Malani, Nippet and Wiley. The four got off together. The other villagers followed a Kneesaa's plan: While the Tromes distracted the stranglethorn, Wicket sneaked into Logray's hut and retrieved the potion that would tame the plant. Logray instructed Wicket to place one drop into each of the plants mouths, but seeing how many heads the plant had sprouted, Wicket instead gathered a group of acorns into his satchel and poured the potion over them. Then he, the Tromes, and the Ewoks fed them to the plant until it shriveled back to its original size. Some minutes later, Logray said that Kneesaa learned her father's three lessons: the Hand's Lesson (when climbed the Keet's palace), the Head's Lesson (when discovered how to retrieve the ganga root) and the Heart's Lesson (when saved Trome's tree). The villagers celebrated the victory, and Chief Chirpa became very proud of his daughter again.

Asha returns


One day, after her friends Paploo, Wicket, and Teebo had come back from their day's travels, they reported that they had seen an Ewok with red fur. Kneesaa, believing this mysterious Ewok to be her sister, went out in the middle of the night to search for her. Together with Wicket, she found Asha many years after their initial separation and took her back to the village, to the delight of Chief Chirpa.

Latara and Wicket's foolish plans
"When Teebo told me Latara was looking for a great warrior to get the crystal cloak, I knew I would find the two together."

- Princess Kneesaa to Wicket and Latara

Despite the three Kneesaa's close friends got responsible jobs in the tribe, as herself, they continued to getting themselves into in trouble. Latara asked Teebo to fix her broken crystal. Teebo told her that he couldn't, nor could any Ewok, ever since the crystal cloak was stolen. It was taken by the Gracca, whom only the greatest of warriors could defeat. With that in mind, Latara knew who to go to. She and Wicket got in their gliders and flew out to the Floating Mountain. After their less than graceful landing, the Gracca was alerted to their presence by a flying flower creature, which the Gracca turned into crystal (as he did everything he touched). When he saw the Ewoks, he tried to stop them by causing huge crystals to rise from the ground. Then Kneesaa and Teebo arrived just in time to save them. Kneesaa spoke against Latara and Wicket's foolish plans.

When the Princess ordered the others to leave the Floating Mountain, the Gracca appeared himself to fight the Ewoks. After Teebo failed with this magic, Kneesaa used her lasso to grab the crystal cloak, but it ended up falling into the lava below. Wicket provoked the enraged Gracca and caused him to crash, thereby trapping himself under a bunch of crystal. So, all that young Ewoks could go back to the village.

A guardian for the Soul Trees
"So you see, you'll take good care of the soul trees one day."

- The Leaf Queen to Princess Kneesaa

Some times later, Kneesaa was not having very good luck with her gardening. Despite her pleading, her last surviving flower died. Kneesaa worried that the village would never trust her to take care of the Soul Trees. Wicket, Latara, and Teebo visited her, but they weren't very encouraging. However, in a sudden swirling wind, the Leaf Queen arrived. She asked Kneesaa to take care of a special plant for her. Kneesaa told her that all the plants she was taken care of have died, but the Queen said to give it "lots of love" and she would do fine. The Queen vowed to return for the plant in three suns time, and with another swirling wind, she vanished.

The other Ewoks teased Kneesaa about the plant, and Wicket caused her to spook Baga, causing him to run off, puling the wagon carrying the plant—and now Kneesaa—along with him. They finally crashed in a pit of mud. Kneesaa wished for something to help clean her up, and the plant magically gave her brush. Then she wished for something pretty to wear, and the plant gave her a bow. Teebo discovered that what she had was a wish plant. Latara decided that she wouldn't mind having a wish plant for herself, so she later took the plant from Kneesaa's hut. But the same greed grabbed hold of Wicket, and later Teebo, and the three all keep taking the plant from each other. By the time Kneesaa got it back, the plant was wilted from being all used up.

When the Queen came back for plant, Wicket fibbed that the plant was sleeping because Kneesaa had been giving it naps and that she should return later. The Queen warned them about happened to the last creature who harmed one of her plants, and to prove it, she destroyed a bag of leaves that had been standing close by. The Queen said that she would return before the sun goes down. The Ewoks were panicked by the gesture, and after the Leaf Queen had departed, they tried everything they could to heal the plant, even trying to find a replacement for the withered shrub. Wicket searched for another wish plant. In the meantime, Teebo tried to heal the plant with a magic spell, but as usual, it didn't turn out quite right. Wicket returned having not had any luck either. Kneesaa cried over the plant as she apologized to it. She turned to leave the hut to go tell the Leaf Queen the truth, not seeing that her tears healed the plant. Kneesaa started to apologize, and her friends joined in. But when the Queen retrieved the plant, they all saw that the plant was fine. The Queen then assured Kneesaa that she would take good care of the Soul Trees one day. The wish plant then bloomed some seeds for Kneesaa, which the Queen said she should plant them before it snows. Many of the Ewoks now wanted the Wish Plant seeds.

The two princesses
"Kneesaa! This is the worst idea you ever had!!!"

- Wicket

While was washing Ewok's clothes, Latara saw Kneesaa riding with Baga and told the Princess that she wanted to be a Princess as Kneesaa for only one day. Latara believed that a princess's life has no chores. So, Kneesaa allowed Latara the title of Princess for one day, in order to show her how hard is a life of a real princess. Kneesaa commissioned Wicket and Teebo to be the loyal servants for "Princess" Latara. Kneesaa secretly offered Wicket a Pearl of Patience for his Belt of Honor if he would go along with her idea. "Princess" Latara showed little care for Wicket and Teebo, her "peasant" servants who carried her throne around the village. Wicket eventually became fed up with Latara's treatment of him and revealed that he was only obeying her to gain the item that Kneesaa offered for his belt. That, combined with Teebo's poorly worded compliment, brought Latara to tears, and she ran off into the woods alone.

When Latara's three friends began looking for her later, Wicket spotted footprints leading to the grotto of the Gorphs. Kneesaa ordered Wicket and Teebo to help Latara with her. After a long slide downward, the trio learned that Latara had become betrothed to Prince Vork. Wicket came up with a plan to save their faux-princess, but the arrival of Gorph guards made them have to improvise a new strategy. Wicket tackled one guard while Kneesaa took care of the other. When Latara heard Kneesaa's cries, she fled, promising to seek the real Princess to Vork. Obviously, Kneesaa did not appreciate like Latara's joke. The four young Ewoks ran to the grotto's exit as the Gorphs pursued. When Wicket realized the ramp they slid down on the way in was to slippery to go back up, he grabbed Latara's heavy crown and threw it at the Gorphs, knocking them all the way back to the Gorph throne room. Once they were free of the grotto, Kneesaa, Wicket, and Teebo all agreed that Latara's time of ordering the Ewoks around was over. Kneesaa became the only Princess of her tribe again.

Baga in danger
Kneesaa was riding with Baga, some hours before go to the Shadow Night Festival with Wicket. But Kneesaa and Baga was found by the Raich, and the two became terrified. The Raich was accidentally freed by Wicket, who took Raich's hat expecting to wear it as a costume for the Shadow Night Festival. Kneesaa dropped in a giant flower, and Baga was captured by the Raich. After Kneesaa freed herself from the flower, she found her friends Wicket, Teebo, and Latara. The three didn't let the bravery Princess go alone after the Raich. Wicket volunteered to go after the beast, but the Ewoks decided they should instead contact Logray.

Rather than be considered a disgrace to the tribe for releasing the Raich, Wicket chose to find the Two-headed Gonster to have a new cap made for the monster. The Ewoks flew on their hang glider to the Twin Hills and landed, after a short run-in with the Gonster's hoosha. After negotiating with the Gonster to make a new cap, Wicket and Kneesaa flew to the Raich's cave in the Dead Forest to administer a potion to slow the Raich down. However, Wicket was unsuccessful with the potion, and he and Kneesaa were instead captured and tied up.

That night, Teebo and Latara flew to the cave with the new magic cap, and Teebo freed his friends while the Raich slept. But the Raich awoke before the Ewoks were away, and he pursued Wicket and his friends into the woods. Kneesaa couldn't help her friends. She was under Baga's attack, when the little bordok was under the Raich's spell. Wicket's first attempt at capping the Raich was unsuccessful, since the Ewoks had forgotten to put the sparkle seeds on the cap. His second try did work, though, and their crisis was ended as the Raich was finally turned back into a tree. Baga was freed from the Raich's spell, and was back to normal. Kneesaa became grateful for Wicket.

While was going to the Shadow Night Festival with Kneesaa, Wicket did try to tell Chief Chirpa the history, but Kneesaa instead dragged him back to the village's party.

The totem pole
While the Ewoks juiced the annual dangleberry fruit, Wicket decided that the job was beneath a young warrior like himself. A nearby traveler heard Wicket's bemoanings and confronted the Ewoks. He was able to bribe Wicket into taking a totem pole, claiming that all the great warriors had them. Kneesaa said Wicket that they couldn't receive a gift from unknown creatures. But Wicket accept the totem pole. After the traveler left, Wicket carried the totem pole back the village by himself. That night, while the Ewoks slept, the traveler went to the village and used his magic ring on the totem pole to bring the totem creatures to life; once free, the creatures robbed the village and gave their loot to their "Totem Master." When Teebo saw this, he wanted to warn Chief Chirpa, but the Totem Master stopped him and used his magic ring to take over Teebo's mind and make him one of his slaves. Wicket briefly awoke during the night and saw some of these events, but he figured it was only a dream, and so he went back to sleep.

The next morning, when the tribe realized they had been robbed and Malani reported that her brother Teebo was missing, Wicket realized that what he saw the previous night was no dream. He, Kneesaa, and Latara set off to find Teebo and their belongings. Once they caught up with the Totem Master, Latara confronted him; however, when he used his magic ring to turn her into a totem slave, Wicket and Kneesaa followed him to his next stop: the Strutter village. While the Totem Master's wagon was on movement, Kneesaa used her lasso to enter in the vehicle, and after, gave her hands to help Wicket to join with her. The couple disguised themselves as totems, on the top of the pole, and wasn't discovered by the Totem Master.

That night, Kneesaa and Wicket tried to stop the Totem Master, but they instead found themselves running from him and were soon captured by the enslaved Latara and Teebo. As the Totem Master tried to use his ring to place his spell on Wicket, he grabbed a Strutter mirror and turned the energy beam back on the Totem Master himself, thereby placing him under his own spell; once the master's ring was destroyed, his slaves were freed of their curse. The next day, the four young Ewoks returned to the village with all of the tribe's stolen belongings.

Battle of Thorn Forest
"I hope he will forgive me through this!"

- Princess Kneesaa, before saving Wicket, but losing his Belt of Honor



During the Battle of Thorn Forest, Kneesaa made the two last acts that decided the Ewok's victory over the Wizards of the Night Spirit. While Wicket was pinning the Stranger to the ground, the Princess used her grappling hook to spin the Sunstar and reverse the ritual that was drawing the Wizards onto the forest moon. At last, when the Stranger tried to carry Wicket out of Endor with him, Kneesaa threw Wicket's lost Belt of Honor around the Stranger's outstretched hands. The strong leather belt soon had the Stranger's hands tied, and he released Wicket from his grasp. The Stranger and the other Wizards of the Night Spirit were banished again, and Kneesaa saved Wicket's life.

The sleeping spell
"Now I remember where I heard about Zarrak! Master Logray said you... said you..."

- Princess Kneesaa being put under a sleeping spell by Zarrak

Princess Kneesaa, Wicket, and Latara were with Teebo one day as he practiced the magic Logray had been teaching him. The three Ewoks was unimpressed with the tricks and with Teebo's execution of them. When Teebo was approached by Zarrak, a dark Ewok wizard who was once Logray's apprentice, Wicket and Latara had to carry Kneesaa back to the village, for she had put under a sleeping spell by Zarrak before reveal them all Zarrak's past. After a brief cart accident, Kneesaa was healed at Logray's hut, and the shaman told Wicket and Latara of Zarrak's past and what danger Teebo was in. Some years before, Zarrak became an unpatient Logray's apprentice, tried to steal the powerful Sunstar, and was banished by the village's chief. Then Logray, Wicket, and the girls set out to save Teebo.

When they arrived at Zarrak's mountain, the former apprentice was trying to drop Teebo into the "realm of spirits" from which "only the greatest wizards" had ever returned. While Logray (with Wicket's little help) and Zarrak battled it out, Kneesaa and Latara rescued Teebo, using Kneesaa's lasso. When the girls ran to help Logray and Wicket, Zarrak used his jewel to summon rocky hands from the ground to trap the four Ewoks. For saving his friends, Teebo used his magic to distract Zarrak and lead him into the abyss, making him drop the jewel, thereby freeing Kneesaa and the others.

Odra's summer freeze
Princess Kneesaa and her four close friends was enjoying a nice summer day. But when Teebo's attempt to summon a cool breeze went horribly wrong, Wicket led the way back to the village to see Logray. Unable to find the shaman, the troupe headed for the observatory and there intercepted a message for Logray from the Leaf Queen via the Sunstar. When a flying leaf showed up outside for ferry to the Sun Palace, Wicket convinced Kneesaa and the others to go in Logray's stead, given the direness of the situation. When the leaf taxi neared the Sun Palace, the group was attack by a pair of Ice Head commandos. Kneesaa was then knocked from the leaf and captured by the Ice Heads; Wicket then made saving her their top priority. The group made their way into the Sun Palace where Wicket negotiated with the Leaf Queen and her siblings. Her majesty informed them that the sudden winter was not the fault of Teebo—it was, in reality, the result of an elaborate scheme by Odra, the Duchess of Sleet, who had frozen the heart of the Snow King to gain possession of the winter-controlling season scepter.

In the throne room of Snow Palace, the Snow King was asking Odra what he could do with Kneesaa, who has not the Sunstar that he want. Knowing the villain's plan, Kneesaa said to Snow King that he would never give the Sunstar, "not even freezing all of Endor". The King replied, freezing Kneesaa in a block of ice and stuck upon an ice pick. Satisfied, Odra said that she and the King could trade Kneesaa for the Sunstar. Shortly after, during the Skirmish at the Snow Palace, Wicket and Teebo took the Season Scepter and used the device to melt the Snow King's heart and eliminate Odra's threat.

With the King back to his jovial self, Wicket requested the release of Kneesaa. The Snow King apologized and unfroze Kneesaa, whom hugged Wicket upon her return. After the King returned the Endor's season back to that of the Sun King, the king's siblings, as well as Logray and Chief Chirpa, arrived at the palace. Chirpa commended Wicket and his friends for their accomplishments, and the Snow King gave Wicket a special trophy for his belt of honor: an Ice Head's club. Wicket was somewhat taken aback by the unconventional and rather large gift, but accepted it graciously nonetheless.

Jadru's maze
"My father will never give you the Sunstar! Never!"

- Princess Kneesaa to Jadru

While Kneesaa and her three close friends tried to bathe Baga one day, they were taken aback when a "beautiful" equine came along, a creature they decided to call Silky. The Ewoks all took a liking to Silky, so much so that Baga started to become jealous. Silky easily earned Kneesaa's trust, even securing the right to sleep on Kneesaa's bed, something that Kneesaa's pet Bordok, Baga, had never accomplished. The Ewoks were all impressed when they learned that Silky could fly. But when the mystical being took Kneesaa for a flight, it suddenly transformed into its natural state—a quarf—and began to carry Kneesaa off to the lair of Jadru, its master. The enchantress Jadru, like so many before her, desired to possess the Ewoks' sunstar, and she was willing to hold Princess Kneesaa ransom to get it. Confirming the Latara's lessons, the Princess's job was becoming more and more dangerous. Several villains of Endor were wishing to arrest the Princess of Bright Tree Village and trade her for the Sunstar. Despite this, Kneesaa never showed fear for them, and continued her challenger answers.

Wicket sent Teebo and Latara back to notify Chirpa of what had happened, while he and Baga went after the quarf. After scaling a steep cliff, Wicket and his steed made their way into Jadru's fortress, but they learned from her floating crystal ball, all too late, that they were in fact in a customizable maze controlled by Jadru. Still, with Baga following Kneesaa's scent, they were able to find their way to the throne room. Then, with Kneesaa now among them, the threesome led Jadru and her quarf astray and returned to the throne where the maze controls were to trap the enchantress in her own maze. Just as Wicket and Kneesaa were trying to figure out how they would escape, Chirpa and the warriors broke into the building. Wicket and Chirpa destroyed Jadru's control levers, ensuring that she would never find a way out. While they were leaving the Jadru's building, Baga accepted Kneesaa's apologies, and became her loyal pet Bordok again.

A diplomatic job
A party that Princess Kneesaa was doing at her home wasn't very well. All the children and young Ewoks that she had invited were wearied and sleeping. Kneesaa would like to show her acorns collection, but nobody became interested. Chief Chirpa arrived, and gave her a special task, which was for Kneesaa must make a party, in honor of Prince Delby, who would arrive at an official visit. The Princess became worried, but Latara heard the dialog (becoming very interested on Delby's arriving) and took the mission, together with an afraid Kneesaa.



Latara commissioned Wicket to spread the party's playcards, and Teebo to lead the musicians (Teebo chose Malani, Nippet, Wiley, and Winda for it). Latara gave Kneesaa a beautiful blue dress and a pair of sandals. The party became how Latara and Kneesaa had planned, until Pugs's arriving. Kneesaa mixed up the Pugs's leader as Prince Delby (she called him as "Your Highness"). The Pugs saw Wicket's playcards, and had a rude posture during the party. Kneesaa became suspicious about the Pugs. She went home to talk Chirpa about Pugs' leader, and caught the Pugs stealing her home. Immediately, the Pugs kidnapped the Princess. Wicket, Teebo, and Latara discovered what happened with Kneesaa, and the three departed to save her, on board Baga's cart.

After escaping from Pug's leader and join with her friends, Kneesaa used her grappling hook to recover the bag with her home objects. The four Ewoks fled from the Pugs, and went back home. At the village, all the Ewoks was sleeping, like the young ones at the story's start, and Kneesaa became afraid about Chirpa's disappointment. Chief Chirpa arrived with the true Prince Delby. After Kneesaa's greetings, Delby apologized to him for arriving after the party, and invited Kneesaa to see his acorns collection. Radiantly, Kneesaa invited him to see her own collection, too. Kneesaa's diplomatic job was successfully, and her three close friends didn't understand Kneesaa and Delby's interest on acorns.

Battle for the Sunstar
"If you help others, they will help you someday."

- Princess Kneesaa to Wicket

Using her veto power, Kneesaa commissioned Wicket, Latara and Teebo to accompany her on an expedition to feed a nest of baby gubas. Wicket wasn't disposed to help, and spoke that his time could be better spent earning another trophy for his belt. His lovely Kneesaa immediately answered with her moral teaching about help others. The foursome climbed a towering tree to reach the gubas, but the chicks were not as responsive as the Princess had hoped. The gubas knocked the group out of the tree, sending them plummeting to the base. Though none of them were injured, the Princess was deterred from helping the gubas in the future. Latara started to deny Kneesaa's teaching about help others.

Shortly after that, the young Ewoks heard the cry of a fircle. The four found the creature arrested in a strange trap. Whilst Teebo was stretching in order to prepare for an attempt at lifting the device, he accidentally push Latara in the way of the mouth of the trap. The foreign device activated, sucking the hapless child into the impervious bubble, trapping her with the fircle. After, Teebo prepared a magic spell with a dust base. Unfortunately, the dust blew into the trap, but it was able to destroy it from the inside, freeing Latara and the fircle. While the Ewoks was asking each others about the strange trap, Teebo was arrested by a droid, that was under the command of Doctor Raygar. The Imperial scientist, flying his personal repulsorcraft, then set an energy beam on Kneesaa. Wicket tried to save her and to attack Raygar's droids, but he found he was no match for the advanced Imperial weaponry. Raygar then spoke with Wicket personally and demanded that he reveal the location of their village if he wished to save his friends. Reluctantly, and seeing his friends Kneesaa and Teebo in pain, Wicket complied, but he and Latara were nonetheless captured and placed into a holding cell with their friends aboard Raygar's ship. Though Wicket tried to lead an escape, the Ewoks were no match for the force field sealing the door. After learning that Raygar was seeking the Sunstar, Wicket knew that they must escape to warn the tribe. Latara denied Kneesaa's teachings again, speaking that no guba was helping them.

Shortly after it, Wicket convinced Raygar's droid PD-28 ("Peedee") to let them out, but their search for an exit led them into an escape pod. Latara inadvertently launched the pod with her buttocks, and while the ride started off bumpy, Wicket took the helm and quickly learned how to pilot the craft. But by the time they arrived at Bright Tree Village, it was too late; Raygar had already taken Sunstar and fled. When the escape pod landed on the village, the Ewok warriors under Chief Chirpa's orders was ready to attack the enemies that they was waiting from the pod. They obviously gave up, when saw their Princess appearing from the pod's door. She left the vehicle, and when was talking her father about Raygar's plans, all of Ewoks saw the doctor's ship leaving Endor.

Fighting on board an Imperial Destroyer


"Let him go!"

- Princess Kneesaa to Dr. Raygar, about Wicket

While Wicket tried to convince Chirpa to use the "flying canoe" to transport some warriors back to the Sunstar, the overeager Latara started the ship's launch sequence and only the four young Ewoks and Peedee made it into the ship before takeoff. Since Raygar's ship was quickly moving towards space, Wicket chose to stay on course, rather than go back to pick up the warriors. The Ewoks were unprepared for the weightlessness they experienced when they broke Endor's atmosphere, although Peedee then engaged the gravity stabilizers, nor had the Ewoks ever seen anything quite like the Imperial Star Destroyer they approached for landing. Upon arrival, Peedee was ordered to be recycled by Admiral Kazz, so Wicket and Kneesaa decided to rescue the droid while the other two Ewoks searched for Raygar.

After retrieving Peedee from the Recylcling center, Wicket and Kneesaa headed to Raygar's lab, where the scientist had used the Sunstar to create a weapon to kill Emperor Palpatine, a weapon he wanted to first test on Latara and Teebo. When Raygar incapacitated Peedee, Wicket sought to avenge his new friend and lashed out at Raygar. He leapt for the man, dodging his blaster bolt, and attacked fiercely. In the scuffle, he inadvertently caused Raygar to fire his new weapon into space as Palpatine's shuttle approached; while the blast—which destroyed one of the Lambda-class shuttle's wings—could have possibly killed the Emperor if fired at a slightly different angle or moment, it also may have saved the man's life by preventing Raygar from firing when he intended. Realizing his predicament, Raygar decided to kill Wicket, but Kneesaa retrieved the Sunstar and hit Raygar, freeding Wicket from his grasp. Wicket then used the Sunstar himself to destroy Raygar's blaster. Wicket, Kneesaa, and Peedee again boarded their capsule, picked up Teebo and Latara, and headed back to Endor. Kneesaa and Latara said good-bye to Peedee, and gratefully kissed the droid. After Peedee left Endor, Latara showed she learned about Kneesaa's teachings, to the delight of the Princess.

Battle of Endor
Although it is unknown where Kneesaa was during the Battle of Endor, it is likely she participated in it, as many of the other Ewoks, notably Wicket, fought in the battle as well.

After the Endor battle and the destruction of the second Death Star, Kneesaa eventually married her childhood sweetheart, Wicket, who co-ruled Bright Tree Village with her after Chirpa's death.

Personality and traits


Since her childhood, Kneesaa became a tender and a kind girl for all that lived together with her. And the young princess was very polite for all friends she conquered on Endor.

When Chirpa became a widow and believed that his older daughter was missed, he chose his only child Kneesaa (until Asha's return) to be his heiress, teaching her all his job. This double familiarity (between father-and-only-child and master-and-apprentice) made Kneesaa very close with her father. She became a mature and strong leader with a high sense of justice.

Kneesaa learned successfully about her tribe's jobs, values and traditions. But she changed some of this traditions, including with her induction as the first Heiress of Chieftain of her tribe's history. Despite of this induction, Kneesaa didn't become a strong warrior as her father. Kneesaa became a bravery Ewok when she started to join adventures with her friend Wicket, a talented scout and warrior apprentice.

Kneesaa always showed respect for all Ewok Elders, including when they did not yet trust her as the future Chief.

Apparently, until becoming Wicket's bride, Kneesaa never showed jealousy about Malani's love interest on Wicket, or his short interest on Chirita. Kneesaa never lost a chance to show her tenderness to Wicket, with hugs and kisses. Wicket always answered with similar tenderness.

Since her Festival of Hoods, she wore a pink hood with the blue gem given by Asha. Some time after becoming a bravery Heir of Chieftain, Kneesaa became the best Ewok on fighting with a grappling hook. She was very precise with it.

Powers and abilities


Sometimes, Kneesaa was interested on Logray's potion formulas. Soon after that, she made the shrinkroot potion that used to defeat the kradak that was attacking the trees of Bright Tree Village. It indicated that Kneesaa had some abilities with magic, as her father with prism pebbles, and she could be a fine wizard apprentice, if she wasn't the Heir of Chieftain. But, according Logray, a good wizard must have a lot of years of total devotion. Some time after the kradak's incident, the job of Heir of Chieftain took all Kneesaa's time.

Kneesaa showed some potential Force-sensitivity in her ability to wield the Sunstar during the fight against Dr. Raygar on board an Imperial Destroyer. However, her Force-sensitivity was likely smaller than Wicket's.

Behind the scenes
Despite Wicket was the main character in the animated television series and in the most of the print issues, Princess Kneesaa was the main character in some stories: Three Cheers for Kneesaa!, Rites of Power, The Incredible Shrinking Princess, The Three Lessons, The Wish Plant, and Party Ewok.

In Star Wars: Ewoks, Kneesaa was voiced by Cree Summer in the first season and Jeanne Reynolds in the second.