David Cusick Artist

David Cusick (c.1780-c.1831) was a Tuscarora artist and the author of David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828). This is an early (if not the first) account of Native American history and myth, written and published in English by an Indian.

Personal facts

David Cusick
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1780
Birth place
New York
Nationality
Tuscarora people
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1831

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Artist

Field of work
Engraving
Illustration
Painting
Movement
Iroquois realism
training at
Autodidacticism

David Cusick on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/24
  2. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/ascfrbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(rbfr+0003))
  3. http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/eenalive/bios/A6637BIO.html