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.
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The work compiles origin tales and early histories of an indigenous confederacy, opening with a cosmogony in which a woman descends into a watery lower world, a turtle-formed island arises, and twin spirits—one benevolent, one malevolent—create the sun, moon, stars, animals, and human beings; their rivalry explains calamities and the rise of an evil spirit. Subsequent sections relate migrations and settlements, the formation of a longhouse political structure, internal dissensions and wars, encounters with other peoples, and descriptions of monstrous creatures, ceremonies, seasonal practices, and social customs that frame communal life.
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