chown difficulties

I pulled some M$ files top linux and have been unable to chown.
What am I doing wrong?
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<:-)Mike(-:>

bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x    2 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
drw-rw-rw-    3 bmike1   root         4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
drwxr-xr-x    3 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
drwxr-xr-x   10 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x    8 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
bmike1@0[Documents]$ sudo chown -R bmike1 documents
bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x    2 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
drw-rw-rw-    3 bmike1   root         4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
drwxr-xr-x    3 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
drwxr-xr-x   10 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x    8 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
bmike1@0[Documents]$ sudo chown bmike1 documents
bmike1@0[Documents]$ ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x    2 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-04-18 06:40 Archive
drw-rw-rw-    3 bmike1   root         4096 2004-05-11 22:20 documents
drwxr-xr-x    3 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-11 21:23 Finances
drwxr-xr-x   10 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-03 19:50 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x    8 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2004-05-09 20:35 Programs
bmike1@0[Documents]$

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