Heads), the Lake Serpent, the Otneyarheh (Stonish Giants), the snake with the human head, the Oyalkquoher or Oyalquarkeror (the Big Bear), the great musqueto, Kaistowanea (the serpent with two heads), the great Lizard, and the witches introduced by the Skaunyatohatihawk or Nanticokes. Early critics of Sketches, including Henry David Thoreau, Henry Schoolcraft, and Francis Parkman, dismissed the text. Critic Joshua David Bellin notes that, "considering how rare Sketches was—rare both in numbers and, as the first self-proclaimed history in English by a North American Indian, in kind—the attention, and hostility, it drew are little short of remarkable". See also List of Native American artists Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas Notes Sources External links David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, 1827 first edition, from Internet Archive. David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, 2006 PDF edition, transposed from the 1828 second edition with modern typography. David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, 1848 edition, from Internet Archive. A brief biography by Charles Boewe Images of the Library of Congress's copy of the 1828 edition of Sketches 1780 births 1831 deaths Native American writers Historians of Native Americans Tuscarora people Native American painters Native American illustrators Tuscarora American Congregationalists