David Cusick

Tuscarora
Served in the War of 1812

• https://archive.org/details/Ayer_251_I611_C9_1827 -David Cusick's sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations... by Cusick, David, -approximately 1840, Publication date 1827, Topics Tuscarora, Iroquois, Publisher Fayetteville, New York : Lewiston.
• https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/24/
• http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/ascfrbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(rbfr+0003))
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cusick-436

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cusick
"David Cusick (c. 1780 – 1840) was a Tuscarora artist and the author of David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827). This is an early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth, written and published in English by a Native American.

Cusick was born between 1780 and 1785, probably on Oneida land in upstate New York.He was Tuscarora. His father, Nicholas Cusick (1756–1840), was a Revolutionary War veteran and an interpreter for the Congregationalist mission to the Seneca. He most likely attended a mission school where he learned to read and write English. David's younger brother, Dennis Cusick, was a watercolor painter, and together the two brothers help establish what the critic William C. Sturvetant has called the Iroquois realist school of painting. David served in the War of 1812, during which his village was burned by the British.

He was a physician, painter, and student of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) oral tradition. He is thought to have died around 1840."