E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57237-h.htm or 57237-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57237/57237-h/57237-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57237/57237-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/davidcusickssket00cusi Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). The author’s style is that of a non-native speaker of English, and in places is grammatically unusual, mixing tenses and using odd sentence structure. Only printer’s errors have been changed; a full list is given at the end. DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES OF ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS, COMPRISING FIRST—A TALE OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREAT ISLAND, (NOW NORTH AMERICA.) THE TWO INFANTS BORN, AND THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE. SECOND—A REAL ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF NORTH AMERICA, AND THEIR DISSENSIONS. THIRD—ORIGIN OF THE KINGDOM OF THE FIVE NATIONS, WHICH WAS CALLED A LONG HOUSE: THE WARS, FIERCE ANIMALS, &c. LOCKPORT, N. Y.: TURNER & McCOLLUM, PRINTERS, DEMOCRAT OFFICE. 1848. PREFACE. I have been long waiting in hopes that some of my people, who have received an English education, would have undertaken the work as to give a sketch of the Ancient History of the Six Nations; but found no one seemed to concur in the matter, after some hesitation I determined to commence the work; but found the history involved with fables; and besides, examining myself, finding so small educated that it was impossible for me to compose the work without much difficulty. After various reasons I abandoned the idea: I however, took up a resolution to continue the work, which I have taken much pains procuring the materials, and translating it into English language. I have endeavored to throw some light on the history of the original population of the country, which I believe never have been recorded. I hope this little work will be acceptable to the public. DAVID CUSICK. TUSCARORA VILLAGE, June 10th, 1825. [Illustration: _ATOTARHO, A FAMOUS WAR CHIEF, RESIDED AT ONONDAGA._] [Illustration: _A WAR DANCE._] [Illustration: _STONISH GIANTS._] [Illustration: _THE FLYING HEAD PUT TO FLIGHT BY A WOMAN PARCHING ACORNS._] PART I.