How to change subdiretory ownership?

i am a root user
i want to change one diectory's ownership (also including subdirectory's ownership)
my command is
chown -R newusername:staff directoryname
but subdirectory's ownership is not changed.
how to do this?
thx

It should change the owner ship to the last node, I tried it and it worked, make sure that you are root.
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