DAVID CUSICK “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Cusick HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1780 Death of John Logan, Cayuga Indian Chief. Who will mourn for Logan? In about this year David Cusick was born, probably on the Oneida reservation in upstate New York. Nicholas Cusick, his father of the Tuscarora tribe, was a Revolutionary War veteran and had served as an interpreter for the Congregationalist mission to the Seneca. David would become a physician and a painter, and would publish a book about the oral traditions of his tribe. A younger brother, Dennis, would become a watercolor painter, and the brothers would help establish the early Iroquois Realist Style of painting. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT David Cusick “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1812 The song “Hey, Betty Martin” was the favorite marching song of the War of 1812. David Cusick would serve on the side of the Americans during this war. His Iroquois village would be burned by the British. US Army Chief of Engineers Joseph G. Swift, while planning the defense of Ogdensburg, New York, met the father of Charles Davies, who was a county Sheriff, and was sufficiently impressed with the proficiency of young Davies to help the family secure him an appointment to the West Point Military Academy of the US Army. Just at this point, Lemuel Shattuck began a diary. The opening sentence of this diary is as follows: “This day 19 years ago I was born into this world a sinner possest of that principle which is opposed to God and his government; totally depraved in all my actions, desires and affections.” LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Cusick HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1827 David Cusick’s SKETCHES OF ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS, a 28-page pamphlet without illustrations about the oral traditions of his Tuscarora tribe, was printed at Lewiston, New York. Geographical locales in the account include the Kanawage (St. Lawrence River), Yenonanatche (Mohawk River), Shawnaytawty (Hudson River), Ouauweyoka (Mississippi River), Onyakarra (Niagara River), Kaunsehwatauyea (Susquehanna River), Kuskehsawkich (Oswego Falls), Jenneatowake (Canandaigua Lake), Kauhagwarahka (Lake Erie), Goyogoh (Cayuga Lake), Geatahgweah (Chatatique Lake), and the forts at Kedauyerkawau (Torewanta plains), Kauhanauka, and the village of Kaunehsuntahkeh. DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1828 David Cusick’s SKETCHES OF ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS, a book about the oral traditions of his Tuscarora tribe, was reissued with expanded text, and this time incorporated four of his own engravings. DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1848 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 DISSENTIONS. THIRD—ORIGIN OF THE KINGDOM OF THE FIVE NATIONS, WHICH WAS CALLED A LONG HOUSE: THE WARS, FIERCE ANIMALS, &C, an 1828 book about the oral traditions of his Tuscarora tribe, was republished with his engravings by the printers Turner & McCollum at the Democrat office in Lockport, New York. DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES Portions of this would be copied by Henry Thoreau into his Indian Notebook #10 in 1856. HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1856 March 4, Tuesday: Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella’s HUSBANDRY and his short BOOK CONCERNING TREES (this may have been L. JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA OF HUSBANDRY. IN TWELVE BOOKS: AND HIS BOOK CONCERNING TREES. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH SEVERAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PLINY, CATO, VARRO, PALLADIUS, AND OTHER ANTIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS, printed for A. Millar in London in 1745). COLUMELLA’S WORKS He also checked out 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 DISSENTIONS. THIRD—ORIGIN OF THE KINGDOM OF THE FIVE NATIONS, WHICH WAS CALLED A LONG HOUSE: THE WARS, FIERCE ANIMALS, &C. (Lockport, New York: Turner & McCollum, printers, Democrat Office. 1848). DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES (Cusick was a Tuscarora tribesman. Thoreau made entries from this in his Indian Notebook #10.) Thoreau also checked out a volume “US 10267.97” which contained the Reverend Doctor Jonathan Edwards the Younger (1745-1801)’s OBSERVATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE MUHHEKANEEW INDIANS .... A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES, BY JOHN PICKERING. AS PUBLISHED IN THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS (Boston: Printed by Phelps and Farnham, 1823; this had been delivered on October 23, 1787 in New Haven, Connecticut), JONATHAN EDWARDS II HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK Professor Benjamin Smith Barton’s NEW VIEWS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TRIBES AND NATIONS OF AMERICA (1798), BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON and, bound with the above, the Reverend George Burder’s THE WELCH INDIANS; OR, A COLLECTION OF PAPERS RESPECTING A PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS EMIGRATED FROM WALES TO AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1170, WITH PRINCE MADOC, (THREE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS), AND WHO ARE SAID NOW TO INHABIT A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE MISSISSIPI [sic] DEDICATED TO THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY BY GEORGE BURDER. LONDON, PRINTED FOR T. CHAPMAN. CONSISTS CHIEFLY OF EXTRACTS FROM THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE, 1789-1792, THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1796, AND LETTERS FROM MISSIONARIES AND TRADERS (1797). REV. GEORGE BURDER Thoreau would make notes in his Indian Notebook #10. HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK GOD IN CONCORD by Jane Langton © 1992 Penguin Books USA Inc. 45 Our relation was one long tragedy.... Journal, March 4, 1856 Viking Penguin Given enough time, the essential quality of a man or woman reveals itself. Presidents fail because one massive flaw ISBN 0-670-84260-5 — PS3562.A515G58 Mar 4th — To Carlisle — Surveying. I had 2 friends. The one offered me friendship on such terms that I could not accept it, without a sense of degradation — He would not meet me on equal terms — but only be to some extent my patron. He would not come to see me, but was hurt if I did not visit him — He would not readily accept a favor — but would gladly confer one — He treated me with ceremony occasionally — though he could be simple & down right sometimes. — and from time to time acted a part treating me as if I were a distinguished stranger — Was on stilts — using made words. Our relation was one long tragedy — for I did not directly speak of it. — I do not believe in complaint, nor in explanation The whole is but too plain alas already. We grieve that we do not have each other — that we cannot confide in each other. I could not bring myself to speak and so recognize an obstacle to our affection — I had another friend, who through a slight obtuseness perchance did not recognize a fact — which the dignity of friendship could by no means allow me to descend so far as to speak of — & yet the inevitable effect of that ignorance was to hold us apart forever. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. David Cusick “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK 1892 David Cusick’s SKETCHES OF ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS, an 1828 book about the oral traditions of his Tuscarora tribe, was again republished with his engravings. DAVID CUSICK’S SKETCHES “MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Cusick HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this “read-only” computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems— allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith — and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Please contact the project at <[email protected]>. “It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST Prepared: September 7, 2014 HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID CUSICK DAVID CUSICK ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT GENERATION HOTLINE This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining).